Quotes About Narrative

When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'

Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of character. But plot? Eh, no.

I'm not like Jonathan Hickman, who's able to sort of plot out three years of a book ahead of time. I'm much more of a guy who plots out an arc or two at a time.

There's more to directing than plotting scenes out.

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus, you have to have the balance of how many letters are going to work to tell the story and how few are going to make it fall apart.

I've always thought my poems told stories.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative.

With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.

I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I think so do poets.

Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.

We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.

Women should be able to come out and narrate stories from their point of view.

I want the camerawork to fit the narrative and tell the story from the point of view of the character, but sometimes, to be interacting with the sensations of the story, you almost become like a ghost, you know? Like, someone that is floating, observing, not really judging what's going on.

'Must Feed and Water' is a love story told from the point of view of 'Love' as a character.

I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.

When I hear a story, I think about it from the point of view of the audience.

I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

There's nothing wrong with a male's point of view, obviously, but it's just a different way of telling a story.

Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.

Point of view gets me. If I can feel like a character rather than a reader, I'll read that book.