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“Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it to people you know, trying to make sure that the mathematics of the story work, you feel that those are in place, and the actual writing and final draft doesn't take as long.”

People Knows Feels Writing Trying Long Play Stories Scene Mathematics Finals Narrative Again And Again Outlining

Author:Brit Marling

“Tone is an interesting question because part of the inspiration of looking to song is that Geisel himself - when you think about his animated version of The Grinch - embraced the idea of using songs in unconventional ways, as part of conveying a narrative. The use of music, in this film, is very unconventional, which I love.”

Thinking Way Ideas Use Inspiration Film Song Interesting Versions Narrative Tone Animated Unconventional Conveying

Author:Christopher Meledandri

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

Knows Want Happens Next Forget Audience Narrative

Author:David Mamet

“Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.”

Writing Self Past Belief Novel Narrative

Author:David Mamet

“Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.”

World Way Humans Wells Stories Spirit My Own Dare Deny Ghost Ignorant Narrative Human Spirit Ghost Stories

Author:Immanuel Kant

“The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it to isolate a single vastly enlarged detail in which one face comes forward to underline a state of mind or stress the importance of a single detail in comparison with the rest. As a narrative device, the ability to vary the distance between the camera and the object may be a small thing indeed, but it makes for a notable difference between cinema and oral or written narrative, in which the distance between language and image is always the same.”

“I'm a little bit too obsessed with the news. I find the news easier to follow than narrative entertainment programs.”

Littles Bits Easier Little Bit News Program Entertainment Narrative Obsessed

Author:Jon Stewart

“I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.”

Thinking World Looks Stories Shows Ability Cameras Photograph Narrative

Author:Garry Winogrand

“I don't have anything to say in any picture. But you do, from your experience, surmise something. You do give a photograph symbolic content, narrative content... But it's nothing to worry about!”

Giving Worry Photograph Narrative Symbolic

Author:Garry Winogrand

“We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.”

Life Stories Enjoy Understanding Wonder Our Lives Lays Storytelling Narrative Live Life Movie Filmmaking Living My Life Watchers Live Life Happy Layout

Author:Donald Glover

“Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók - some chamber pieces, and that's my enrichment.”

Pieces Minutes Listening Function Narrative Chamber Classical Music Enrichment

Author:James Ellroy

“I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative.”

People Ifs Narrative Flashback

Author:Jill Soloway

“There are multiple shows of record about a late-transitioning patriarch and how the kids are affected, and there are multiple narratives. That narrative on "Keeping up with the Kardashians," the answer is, they're pretty much fine. It's the same sort of story we were telling which is, you know what? Everybody's okay.”

Knows Stories Shows Kids Answers Records Fine Late Okay Narrative Affected Multiple Patriarch

Author:Jill Soloway

“Too many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us off the hook... But we don't need everyone on board; we don't need one magic person in office; we need ourselves. To act. It's the wind, not the weathervanes.”

Needs Persons Seems Action Magic Wind Office Narrative Boards Hook Powerlessness

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.”

Want Giving Should Stories Elements Photography Narrative

Author:Sarah Moon

“It sometimes happens that you just know... You have a feeling that things are coinciding, and that they operate and work on a number of levels - obviously visual aesthetics, but also content and narrative in terms of the bigger picture. When document and metaphor come together.”

Knows Sometimes Feelings Happens Together Term Levels Numbers Bigger Metaphor Narrative Visuals Documents Aesthetics Bigger Picture

Author:Paolo Pellegrin

“There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or running with it.”

Running Able Behinds Imagine Standing Cameras Photographer Narrative

Author:James Welling

“I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Song Strong Narrative Basics

Author:Suzanne Vega

“It may come as a surprise to many that there are ciphers (coded messages indicated by a letter or group of letters) in the Bible. Some are hidden; some, when revealed, are a key part of the narrative itself”

May Groups Keys Messages Letters Surprise Narrative Ciphers

Author:Chuck Missler

“Well I'm not a storyteller, as far as telling stories which relate to experiences in my own life. That's not what I do. I write songs which have a narrative and attempt to make sense and tell a story - sure! But whenever I hear the word "storyteller" I think of a children's musician.”

Thinking Writing Wells Children Stories Song My Own Musician Relate Narrative Make Sense Storyteller My Own Life Telling Stories

Author:Freedy Johnston

“To me, music and songwriting is... part of the intriguing thing is the creative process; you know, the creative thought process. Relying on that... there is some sort of inspiration there and you can't always put your finger on where it comes from. So, it's always been important for me to have my own thing and, even though I'm inspired by and influenced by many different musicians and styles of music, I was very determined early on to have my own thing. So when I sit down to write I don't necessarily have a particular narrative or message in mind. I'm interested in language and in words.”

“It was important to me to change the narrative. It's important because it has an impact on everything you do. It doesn't matter who you are or what business you are running. You would always be seen as some African from the bush trying to run a bank. But we do these things successfully and we shouldn't be seen as second rate. That is the message that we are putting out there.”

Trying Important Matter Running Messages Impact Who You Are Rate Narrative Second Rate

Author:Mo Abudu

“There aren't enough people in the media creation space. There aren't enough people making premium quality programming. That's how we change the narrative. Because there is a lot of bad African programming out there, and it is not helping matters.”

People Matter Enough Helping Space Quality Media Creation Narrative Programming Premium

Author:Mo Abudu

“We can change the narrative about Africa with content.”

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Author:Mo Abudu

“The Forbidden Room and Seances are related. Both of them are made up of lost film matter adapted through the medium of me and Evan, but the way they present themselves is totally different. One of them is this big Russian nesting doll of movie narratives and the other is much shorter experience on the internet.”

Way Made Different Matter Bigs Film Lost Rooms Internet Mediums Narrative Related Forbidden Dolls Adapted

Author:Guy Maddin

“I just discovered that there were so many lost movies that were all mine to take if I wanted to take them. I was drunk on greed when I encountered this motherlode of utterly fascinating narratives that time's great river washed up on its banks for me to just scavenge, and not even rub clean, just repurpose and take credit for. It was kind of one of those weird dreams that where you keep finding free money.”

Ifs Kind Dream Wanted Lost Mines Findings Rivers Clean Greed Credit Drunk Narrative Fascinating Free Money Weird Dream

Author:Guy Maddin

“Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films, but I also just couldn't resist throwing in the disruptive. It seems to me that art-house film is at its glorious zenith right now, maybe it can even get better? There's just so many good films, you know Cemetery Of Splendour, Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes, just so much great work coming out.”

“There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.”

Ifs Country Political Ability Class Study Design Citizens Our Country Chiefs Narrative Commanders Statesmen Commander In Chief

Author:Benjamin Carson

“It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society is based on both a politics and history that have been disguised as a solid society of solid male poems, a solid written language, fixed rules of how to write literature, and a narrative language.”

Writing Has Beens Literature Language Difficult Common Written Perspective Males Narrative Fixed Bent Korean Usage Written Language

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“Frankly, Django is an American story that needs to be told, when you think of slavery existing in this country for 245 years. In slave narratives there were all types of tales and drama and heroism and pain and love that happened during that time. That's rich material for drama! Everyone complains that there are no new stories left to tell. Not true, there are a whole bunch of them, and they're all American with a capital A.”

Thinking Needs Years Country Whole Stories Pain Left Rich Happened Materials Type Drama And Love Slavery Slave Complaining Bunch Tales Narrative Heroism Love And Pain Django

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to television than to prose. That's equally sad, if not more so.”

People Ifs Pay Attention Fiction Television Journalism Pay Attention Narrative Prose

Author:David Simon

“Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means by which you can deliver very complicated, nuanced explanations of problems and possible solutions.”

Mean Problem America Reading Solutions Complicated Narrative Explanation Prose Delivery

Author:David Simon

“Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world to enter. What's unique about a linked collection is that it can deliver both sets of narrative pleasures - the novel's long immersion into character-world and the story anthology's energetic (and mortal) brevity - the linked collection is unique in its ability to be both abrupt and longitudinal simultaneously.”

World Long Ends Character Stories Given Ability Pleasure Novel Clear Unique Mortals Narrative Collections Thrown New World Linked Energetic Brevity Anthology Immersion

Author:Junot Diaz

“The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery. Because we never dealt with that evil, I don't think slavery ended in 1865, it just evolved.”

Thinking Evil Differences Slavery Narrative Servitude Involuntary American Slavery

Author:Bryan Stevenson

“The beauty of being a liberal is that history always begins this morning. Every day liberals can create a new narrative that destroys the past as it occurred. We have always been at war with Eastasia.”

War Past Morning Narrative

Author:Ann Coulter

“One of the things cognitive science teaches us is that when people define their very identity by a worldview, or a narrative, or a mode of thought, they are unlikely to change-for the simple reason that it is physically part of their brain, and so many other aspects of their brain structure would also have to change; that change is highly unlikely.”

People Reason Simple Brain Teach Identity Aspect Structure Narrative Unlikely Worldview Cognitive Cognitive Science

Book:The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics

Source: The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics

“One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.”

Reason Tvs Fit Ideals Structure Narrative Compare

Book:The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics

Source: The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics

“Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.”

Ifs Character Might Strong Decision Materials Female Males Narrative Female Characters Strong Female Characters Strong Female

Author:Meg Cabot

“We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.”

Firsts Has Beens Real Stories Reading Given Enjoy Curiosity Lust Narrative Leisure Sheer Real Beauty Rereading Savour

Book:Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

Source: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

“We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.”

World Needs Made Ends Stories Decision Narrative Competing

Author:Alister E. McGrath

“If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?”

People Ifs Needs Problem Simple Spread Narrative Simplest Amplify

Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.”

Long Important War Political Accounts Crisis Historical Narrative Confined Political Life Political History

Book:A history of the ancient world

Source: A history of the ancient world

“I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a question.”

Use Used Answers Painting Narrative

Author:Danny Fox

“I had been thinking independently about our ability to forget things that happened, specifically, events that clearly were wrong, that crossed the line. It seemed to me during the 2000 election recount that the media's narrative was being orchestrated. Shockingly, after the Supreme Court decision, the media simply said, "Time to move on," end of reporting: "Here's the new story." And everyone forgot.”

Thinking Said Ends Stories Moving Lines Ability Decision Forget Happened Media Events Election Court Supreme Narrative Supreme Court Time To Move On Court Decision Simply Said

Author:Robert Kane Pappas

“I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.”

Narrative Impulse Prose

Author:Matthea Harvey

“Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.”

Thinking Writing Mind Able Fiction Function Narrative Writing Fiction Great Gifts Chronology

Author:Dani Shapiro

“I don't know if it's something that we as a species are hardwired for or if it's more of a contemporary phenomenon related to technology and rapid dissemination of data. I did know that whatever its cause or nature, I wanted to interrogate this phenomenon. But the only way for me to do that, the only tool I have to dissect it with, is a fictional narrative.”

Ifs Knows Way Wanted Causes Technology Tools Species Contemporary Data Narrative Related Phenomenon Rapids Dissemination

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“I am committed now to one thing: lyric sequences. I want the intensity of lyric, but the scope and arc of narrative. so, I think I'll just write sequences for the foreseeable (the Beloved sequence doesn't have a 'plot' so I can just keep adding poems to it, it's like a giant bag I can just put beloved lyrics into - I think there are about 300 of them i've published by now).”

Thinking Want Writing I Can One Thing Committed Narrative Beloved Giants Bags Plot Intensity Scope Sequence Arcs

Author:Gregory Orr

“Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is about causality that we don't immediately understand.”

Stories Fiction One Thing Models Karma Narrative Causality

Author:Jess Row

“Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and misleading, and actually dangerous. And the narrative that emerges when you spend time in the South - places likes Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana - is that we have always been a noble, wonderful, glorious region of the country, with wonderful, noble, glorious people doing wonderful, noble, glorious things. And there's great pride in the Alabamians of the nineteenth century.”

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