Quotes About Narrative

I don't always enjoy them, but when a scary movie has a really good storyline, that gets me interested.

I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.

The idea of having different characters is really just to get the storyline across, you know? Coming from one particular character makes, to me, the story boring. I get that mainly from novels and that style of writing or movies where there's multiple characters who carry the storyline.

I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.

It's of course important to mention that when DJing, I'm building my own story through the music. I'm figuring out what song to play next, what song to play after that, and how the two will blend together. How the emotion is going to develop from one song to another. So I first build that storyline.

When you write stories linking reality to a big storyline, people relate to it better.

The story of 'Libra Scale,' the storyline was created first, and then the music was created around the story line.

In my opinion, it would be a lot better for the culture - meaning the culture of America - if there was more diversity in terms of storyline. In terms of the kind of content that you see about Americans of African descent on the screen.

Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone's granny or eight-year-old takes the highest quality of your powers.

I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.

I think anything with a serialized storyline is a perfect match for binge-watching.

This character I play on 'OITNB' is an antagonist in a Black Lives Matter storyline, but you need antagonists in order to tell those stories.

Every good look needs a storyline.

I felt like a glorified extra in everybody else's storyline.

It's incredibly frustrating to constantly read scripts where you're the girlfriend who is there to further the man's storyline.

God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.

Creating is one thing; telling the story is one thing. I see myself more as a storyteller than a story creator.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren't expecting, and take them in a direction that is satisfying in the here and non.

There's always going to be pressure, and there's always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.

I'm certainly no Bruce Springsteen in terms of being a storyteller, but I'm trying to get a better handle on it and not always go after it from an autobiographical standpoint.

I think, make it as beautiful as you can, and then rip it away. That's my sadistic thought as a storyteller.

It's very dangerous for a storyteller to walk into a situation with a political agenda because you end up telling a story about issues instead of telling a story about people.