Quotes About Narrative

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach to people, but you want them to think about why things are the way they are, the history that is there as well as the possibilities.

'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters.

I don't want to tell sad stories about myself. We may not have had a lot to spend when I grew up, but my childhood was good. The public likes to hear a dramatic story. They want a star to rise, have a meltdown and then return to greatness. Very American.

People love stories; they use stories to make sense of the world.

I don't know acting, but I choose good stories and portray emotions according to the story.

I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.

I wanted to write a book like a rapper would write it - I didn't want to hold back. Rappers catch a lot of slack; I'm not going to be cursing up a storm, but when I look at Nas... his first album is one of my favorites. I want to tell stories like that.

Everybody has their own story; everybody has their own journey.

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.

Now you know the rest of the story.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.

If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story.

I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don't know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.