Quotes About Narrative

Most of my films have been very character driven.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

In my earlier films, there was lots of song, dance and action. But now, I believe the story and script is more important.

I think the easiest story to tell is your own.

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

If you're a drama writer, obviously you always have to tell the truth; there's no element of fiction in at all.

We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories.

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

Well, I think if you're telling a story, a three act structure will just naturally emerge out of it. But I also love it when a film doesn't feel like it's anchored too rigidly to that structure and you feel like anything could happen.

It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.

When I got into the second half of 'Dragon Ball,' I had already become more interested in thinking up the story then in drawing the pictures. Then I started to not place much emphasis on the pictures.

I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.

You can do all of the world-building you want; at the end of the day, what's important is the heart and the drive of the story and the heart and the drive of the characters.

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.

The more extreme the story, the more successful it becomes. Emotions on high, empathy engaged, we become primed to help.

My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.

Making a movie to entertain people, that's just as important as telling people about our stories.

I don't think you're ever ready to read your life back to yourself and try to make it entertaining for others.

I love telling stories, I love entertaining, and I love my job.

That energy and enthusiasm of telling a story is a different magic.

In the writers' room, when we talk about each episode, we first talk about the character journey of the episode.

'Kaafir' is an eight-episode series; but while shooting, you really don't know which part is for which episode.