Quotes About Narrative

It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

With docs, there's often a very direct communication between the filmmaker and the audience. With narrative movies, we leave it a little bit more open.

The whole point of music is being able to share your story.

The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.

Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók - some chamber pieces, and that's my enrichment.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

An old Apache storyteller reminds us