Quotes About Narrative

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

The more layers a story has, the better it is for the audience.

The story of 'Punyakoti' is real-intense. It has a lot of layers and is not as simple as the stuff I wrote when I was an amateur.

I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of.

Sometimes I hear a voice - sometimes it's the voice of someone I know. And sometimes that leads to a character, which leads to a story.

The story always leads you where it's supposed to go.

As women we are very accustomed to putting ourselves in the shoes of male leads.

When I watch a show, and it's only six white dudes that are the leads, and I'm just supposed to be interested and relate somehow, that's just not that interesting to me.

No albums are better or worse than each other, and they're all important to our legacy and our story.

The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me.

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

For me, the story must be the hero of the film. The screen space or the length of my role does not matter.

What is the point of doing a long length character if that does not make sense or create an impact on story?

I would like to tell stories through the lens of the gay person, but not just for gay people.

We always tell everyone that women's wrestling has always been told through the lens of a man because it's a male-dominated industry. It's never been told through the lens of a woman and we want to be able to tell that story.

Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it.

When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.

It's all about letting the story take over.

A black character is much more than just a black character; he's a character, period. So show the world as it is. Even with all your artistic license, you make a political choice.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

I want artists to tell their story and share their life experience.

I like to tell stories in my writing but I definitely use my own life experiences to tell that story.

You know the way you tell your life story to a friend? I just told mine to a piano.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.