Narrative Quotes - Page 36

• I plan years in advance, but I like to leave enough space in the narrative scheme to change things, because I always get my best ideas the closer I come to the end of a project, after I've lived with it for a while.

  Grant Morrison

  Space, Years, Ideas

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Couple, Book, Writing

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• The joy of a road movie is its very simple narrative nature, which is that you know you're going to go through different places and you're going to meet new people. At the same time, you have to not make it feel too obvious and too crudely episodic.

  Sam Mendes

  Simple, People, Joy

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 2, 2009.

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• It's impossible for one or two people to go out and shoot a narrative film; you need to have a cast, the person shooting sound, whatever. But you can legitimately have a couple people and go and do a documentary.

  Jeremy Coon

  Couple, Two, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world.

  James Ellroy

  World, Digital, Avoided

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• The main reason why I'm a documentary filmmaker is the power of the medium. The most powerful films I've seen have been documentaries. Of course, there are some narrative films that I could never forget, but there are more documentaries that have had that impact on me.

  Richard Ray Perez

  Powerful, Impact, Documentaries

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me. Documentaries are also cheaper, they are more accessible to make.

  Richard Ray Perez

  Thinking, Done, Documentary Films

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in terms of narrative and vision of the world.

  Lucrecia Martel

  Optimistic, Vision, World

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one that makes me feel good sometimes.

  Andrew Neel

  Escaping, Feel Good, Hopeful

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• [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.

  Matthew Barney

  Sculpture, Stories, Way

  "A Natural Love Story: Matthew Barney Talks About 'Drawing Restraint 9'" by Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2006.

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• If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different narratives.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Unity, Might, Different

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• For me becoming a filmmaker was about taking back my voice - crafting stories that would move away from the problematic narratives that the studio system would put out about Latinos. I think this is why people like my films. They're refreshing. They feel more real.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Real, Moving, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die, but they would never say that movies will die with it, when in fact all forms depend on the narrative. I think if one of them fails, the others are going to fail as well. Maybe this will happen to both forms, and maybe movies will take a totally different direction with fiction.

  Don DeLillo

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Interviews with Don DeLillo, perival.com. December 15, 2016.

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• Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an extraordinary blow to consciousness, and it changed everything.

  Don DeLillo

  Blow, Two, World

  "Finding reason in an age of terror". Interview with David L. Ulin, articles.latimes.com. April 15, 2003.

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• We are opinionated society. We're very happy to spout forth our own views; we're not good about listening. We have to listen to other's stories. Learn to listen to the stories of the terrorists just as we hope that they will listen to ours because very often these narratives express frustrations, fears, and anxieties that most societies can safely ignore.

  Karen Armstrong

  Frustration, Views, Anxiety

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I feel like in a conversation if things get said and then repeated, it sort of becomes inherently part of the narrative whether you want it to be or not.

  Panda Bear

  Want, Conversation, Said

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that's true of all cinema, that's why cinema is the great humanistic art form. Whatever the film is, it doesn't matter what the film is about, or even whether it's a narrative or figurative film at all, it's an invitation to step into somebody else's shoes. Even if it's the filmmaker's shoes filming a landscape, you go into somebody else's shoes and you look out of their lens, you look out of their eyes and their imagination. That's what going to the pictures is all about.

  Tilda Swinton

  Art, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think that you can treat a classic like a museum piece -stuffed and mounted- or you can make it a living, breathing narrative that is unfolding right then and there.

  Peter Jackson

  Thinking, Museums, Breathing

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous.

  C. S. Lewis

  Miraculous, Has Beens, Regard

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.

  Brenda Laurel

  Mean, Heart, Technology

  Brenda Laurel (2001). “Utopian Entrepreneur”, p.102, MIT Press

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• I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult films or vignettes, not just "gonzo" scenes, which are straight sex, no storyline.

  Sasha Grey

  Sex, Past, Differences

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.

  Alice Sebold

  Character, Sound, Like You

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.

  Kevin Sessums

  Christian, Expanding, Theist

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching spiritual thing. We are the light and the dark, and have to own the darkness. It's part of us. It's not evil. It's needed. You need to own both of them to be whole. Absorb it, and live it as part of your life.

  Kevin Sessums

  Spiritual, Believe, Dark

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you're actually going to make history worse.

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  War, Book, Interesting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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