Quotes About Narrative

Audiences are always open to an interesting story.

Call me the author.

What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

A book is either autobiography or a novel.

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

People have asked me about doing an autobiography, but I don't think my life is that interesting.

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

I like autobiographies. I wouldn't mind making one of those.

I'm obviously interested in playing characters who have autonomy, who drive the story.

I only ever wanted to do history, and make documentaries.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama.

The part of television I like are things that have a documentary feel to them.

Fans watching need to be able to connect the dots in your match and the story that you're trying to tell.

There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.

I love political dramas. I love good story-telling.

With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

I like to draw my storyboards myself.

Drawing' is telling a story with pictures. 'Writing' is telling a story with words.

So much TV is drawn out.

I always loved dressing up and telling stories.

My stories are character driven.

I felt that, with 'Zatanna,' I had a chance to do a story about a strong, driven woman.