I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters..
When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible..
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..
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same ….
Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives..
Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives..
As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even comp….
I have not chosen to create a linear story, but a series of different narratives: in the end there are five plays that almost, but don't quite, add u….
The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairl….
People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with..
What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acc….
Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique..
I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience..
First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of t….
Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which enterta….
Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it mea….
…everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re not really alive ….
Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read..
I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I ….
The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to..
It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed disg….