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Quotes About Narrative

We promote Asian storytelling - not just Asian stories but Asian people in stories with the full spectrum of the human experience. When you say, 'Oh, it's not enough attention on Asians. It's more black and white,' that game becomes like you're playing the discrimination Olympics.
~ Ronny Chieng
We need storytelling from all angles. We need men, women, and trans people participating in all aspects of filmmaking; this is the only way we can depolarise the age-old standard of singular perspective.
~ Parvathy
If you go back to early folk, it's all storytelling; that's exactly what it is: some guy telling a story in a pub to 50 people with a guitar, you know.
~ Passenger
The storytelling in country music is so powerful.
~ Jessica Mauboy
I don't differentiate game design and script; it is one and only document. I think that one of the biggest problem with storytelling in games is that people tend to separate story and interactivity. Both should be conceived as one entity, each using the other.
~ David Cage
The dynamics of storytelling are very important. To just be serious and morose all the time would be not very enjoyable.
~ Cory Barlog
I think as you have a more diverse group of people working in the industry, you automatically have more diverse storytelling. That's definitely to be celebrated for sure.
~ Hildur Gudnadottir
I am not against songs in films. We come from an oral tradition of storytelling. I have grown up listening to epics in oral rendition and oral rendition always had music.
~ Mani Ratnam
Movies are a hobby for me. I think storytelling has reached a new level where younger audiences are looking at something more real and contextual.
~ Ronnie Screwvala
I never made a clear-cut in my mind between theatre and film, as I always felt that at the heart of both of them is storytelling and acting.
~ Lucien Bourjeily
When I got hurt, I wanted to develop my skills from a storytelling perspective, do the work, read books. Develop things. To be the storyteller for basketball, period.
~ Baron Davis
Whenever two guys got together, you asked, 'What body part would you like to work?' In my case, it was the arm. Most guys wanted to feed me for that arm drag. We always believed in storytelling, so if I had the arm, the heel would get away for a moment - or heel his way away - and then I would get back to it.
~ Ricky Steamboat
The police genre is capable of holding and shaping many forms of storytelling.
~ Lesley Sharp
For me, storytelling is what I love to do and that's my life's work. Football is not my life's work. It's just part of my life's journey, but creativity is my actual life's work.
~ Martellus Bennett
My dad was ex-military, so I was raised to always know about current events, particularly what was going on with the military and government. And I always loved storytelling.
~ Harris Faulkner
I've always been fascinated with storytelling.
~ Baron Davis
With any movie at all the challenge lies in the storytelling.
~ James Newton Howard
I've always been a huge fan of Netflix and its storytelling.
~ Vignesh Shivan
If you can connect with the audience emotionally, that's potent storytelling.
~ Travis Knight
Everything I do is storytelling; storytelling is about curiosity.
~ David Baddiel
My career as an author began as I saw it as a natural progression from music, as both music and books are a method of storytelling.
~ Tom Fletcher
Storytelling was always a passion for me.
~ Pratik Gandhi
It wasn't until 'Double Take' that I was in a movie as the leading man, in a character that was more straight and less broad than the other character, and where the story is really about him.
~ Orlando Jones
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
~ Dean Kamen