Quotes About Narrative

Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.

Passed down from generation to generation, storytelling was an art in my family.

Casting is storytelling.

I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?'

You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.

I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

I'm always interested in storytelling and whatever form that comes in.

That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas.

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.

The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.

There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That's why stories came to be: to hold attention and, while you're not looking, you'll get hopefully some nutritional value that the author has been working up. That's narrative; that's passing stuff down.

Part of George R.R. Martin's brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.

It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The notion of, 'If I put the narrative blocks in the right order, this will solve all of my storytelling problems.' No, it won't, and you end up with little more than books on film.

There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me to get anywhere else.

Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking.

I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.

Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and it's a brand new audience for me.