Quotes About Narrative

Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory.

Every ist writes his own autobiography.

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving.

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

When an image depends on the next for a complete meaning, it moves the story and audience along without choking them with pathos

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act".

cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event

Because that's what a comic is, ultimately: a collection of pages. It's not a flatpanel or a touchscreen, even though that's where it might eventually be displayed. It's a page.

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

Makebelieve is a writer's best friend.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude

I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme.

He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.

I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it.

Here is a drawing of a stapler:

You wouldn't believe what people will believe once they know our story. They're ready for anything, basically—will believe anything, because they've been thrown off-balance, are still wondering if any of this is true, our story in general, but aren't sure and are terrified of offending us.