“Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.” ThinkingMenWayWellsKindMeanArtMadeI CanStoriesUsePoetryVoiceFivePoetExpressionTraditionTheaterMusicalFolksSensesMediumsAll TimeAppealsNarrativeProseOne ManPeculiarGesturesVersesDo The BestPrintedTelling StoriesDynamicsFive SensesAnesthetics Book:The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction Source: The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction
“Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verité is film in its purest form. You're taking random images and creating meaning out of random images, telling a story, getting meaning, capturing something that's real, that's really happening, and render this celluloid sculpture of this real thing. That's what really separates the power of doc filmmaking from fiction.” ArtRealStoriesFilmFormFictionPureCreatingHappeningsTheaterArchitectureNarrativeCinemaFilmmakingSculptureReal ThingsArt HistoryCulminationCelluloid Author:George Hickenlooper
“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.” WorldFilmTermVisionProduceSucceedTheaterOptimisticNarrativeDisillusionmentHomogeneousHomogeneity Author:Lucrecia Martel
“I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside me.” StillsMomentsUsedTheaterPainterNarrative Author:Ragnar Kjartansson
“I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules and a completely different set of characters and requirements and ambitions. It maybe shouldn't be as separate as it is, but it's got a different history. In terms of serious drama, I think you'd have to say that you could break it down essentially into the narrative realist tradition and experimental theater.” ThinkingDifferentCharacterFormTermBreakSeriousDramaAmbitionTraditionTheaterNarrativeRequirementsRealistI Love Music Author:Tony Kushner
“There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and then the other great contribution is American musical theater, which is a whole other kettle of fish.” ThinkingTwoWholeImportanceTheaterMusicalFishesTraditionalNarrativeContributionRealismStrainKettlesMusical TheaterPlaywriting Author:Tony Kushner
“To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore. And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.” KnowsWantFactsDreamWould BeFilmWalksSecretStepsWatchesSpringTheaterGet UpNarrativeSeatsInsultPocketsCashOriginalityLaddersRegisterStep UpClimaxEscalatorsRewind Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006 Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006
“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.” FeelsStillsFilmLanguageTheaterNarrativeAbstract Author:Emmanuel Lubezki
“I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.” ThinkingArtFilmFormActorsFictionPureTheaterArchitectureNarrativeCinemaMovieFilmmakingArt HistoryCulmination Author:George Hickenlooper