Quotes About Narrative

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

TV has become long-form now. A season can be like a 13-hour film, separated into episodes, so you can analyse a character for five years and talk about the things that films used to talk about but don't any more.

It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political.

I'm not the guy to ask to write a sequel.

I don't want to be someone whose shot takes you out of the dramatic sequence or takes you out of the emotional story that you're trying to tell or says, 'Hey, look at this cool shot I have here.' To me, that's not right.

I love serial drama.

The only problem with a TV serial is you never know where it will go.

Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies.

I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.

I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

I just love to share my story with people as much as I can.

For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories.

My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and heard, but that can also add to the conversation about what's going on now.

After making a movie, maybe you weren't able to shoot many of your ideas, because a movie is only 1 1/2 or two hours long, but TV gives you space to film a lot of things.

With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.

Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories.

Try to place the camera somewhere where you get most of the information from there, so you don't need to have too many shots and be too explanatory and expositional about the scene.

I feel like it's important for young African-American girls - and all people - to read books that tell our stories and watch movies that tell our stories and do the research on our own, too, because sometimes that's not being told, and we're not being seen and shown.

These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.

If you're telling a story, and somebody is going to come out badly, it better be you.

People bang on all the time about whether what I've done is the truth or not. Well, to me, history is just a series of elaborate fictions.

Interesting stories appeal to me, much like it appeals to the audience. Or else I might as well become a banker and make more money.

I enjoy being out with the fans, I enjoy talking baseball, but to get up and tell my life story... I'm not comfortable doing that.

I just try to tell my stories in a way that is still light-hearted and fun to listen to. I'm not trying to bash you over the head with what I have to say.