Narrative Quotes

If there's a narrative, I want it in the flesh.

Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the narrative.

Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative. Everything feels less rehearsed. It’s more experimental than classical.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is 'I want you to feel what I feel,' and the effective narrative is designed to make this happen. That's how the information is bound to the experience and rendered unforgettable.

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments ­ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself.

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.

[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.

Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence.

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

Specificity is the soul of narrative.

I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.

There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history that can occur but once in their detailed glory. And for those kinds of sciences, be it cosmology, or evolutionary biology, or geology, or palaeontology, the experimental methods, simplification, quantification, prediction and repetition of the experimental sciences don't always work. You have to go with the narrative, the descriptive methods of what? Of historians.

I tried to control the narrative.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

When you're at your best, you're analyzing yourself and becoming increasingly isolated from a broader narrative.

I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.

We can change the narrative about Africa with content.

What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It's very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.

I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way you shoot a movie. Now, I'm learning about the beautiful marriage between form and narrative.

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.

The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

Even if I made pornography, the trauma would show, though. It will always be there because it's my verité. It's my kind of narrative, it's my kind of storytelling. It's not style; it's just there.