Quotes About Narratives

We all have to contribute in any way we can to telling stories that include everyone; that's our jobs, to speak out and make sure we're representing people.

Traditional news feels quite sanitised, quite statisticky. We're bombarded with images, but often, you don't see the human stories, or if you do, it's only for 60 seconds, max.

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.

Animation has been ghettoized through the years by giving the impression we only do the same kind of stories.

People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.

It takes such little imagination to include people of colour in the stories you tell and so much more work to exclude folks.

We need to include more writers from different backgrounds and ethnicities. We need to see different experiences instead of the same people writing the same kinds of stories.

I think sports stories are increasingly part of the diet of most important stories in the country.

I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.

If I can't see stories in the lives of the people around me,--I just couldn't see them anywhere. If I can't see drama in humanity near me, I guess I couldn't detect it in humans far away.

If you want a strong future: You need to get past the stories that you have told yourself and others. You need to hear the heartbeat that's the real you.

What we need now are new stories to share with each other, new tales to live into the world, which is to say, stories to make real by living our own versions of them.

I am definitely trying not to take films that are mostly about dude problems, not because I don't think they're worthy problems, but there are a lot of people who will take those.

We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

People are falling in love with characters now, and that is why writers are creating such stories. I am really happy that such stories are getting prominence.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

Greg Rucka always writes lovely, believable female characters in books like 'Whiteout,' 'Queen and Country,' and 'Lazarus.' I am a fan of Kelly Sue DeConnick, who does a wonderful female lead in 'Captain Marvel.' And DC's 'Batwoman' is currently the only book at the Big Two with a lesbian solo lead character, and it's always outstanding.

I'm always touched by people's different stories of who they are and why they made the choices that they made. I feel so empowered by the story behind the person.

It's easy to look at a show with a diverse cast that's touching on topics that haven't been talked about and to think, 'Oh, this is just political correctness; this is just box ticking.'

New platforms are emerging: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Xbox. And film actors are gravitating towards television, because there are basically better roles there. Television is making the kind of epics and genres that the movie studios used to make, and often doing it better with more complex narratives and corresponding budgets.

Many of our ideas of what love is comes from stories... these are extremely powerful shapers of our attitudes towards love, and I think that, in some ways, often we've got the wrong story.

True-crime shows and podcasts aren't the only ones flattening the complexity of forensic science into easy-to-grasp narratives: journalists do so, too. They say DNA or trace evidence 'matches' a suspect, when scientists can't be so definitive.