Narrative

“There are two sides to every story. Sometimes there are three sides.”

“Потому что артисту не слова играть интересно, а историю.”

“Everybody has a script.”

“I feel like I tell stories of triumph.”

“I think the most important thing I've done, is to do the song about the ship, about the Fitzgerald.”

“I never feel that I have to be true to history: I have to be true to my story.”

“I think they should just get on with it, cut to the chase, tell the story!”

“Man is, in his actions and practice, as well as in his fictions, essentially a story-telling animal.”

“The stories we tell of our hurts and joys are sacred.”

“This time, I was telling my own story instead of creating characters in my head.”

“I always want the camera to be someone.”

“It is not only wanting to tell your story, but to also tell it your way that’s part of the struggle.”

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

“When you do that let me tell you what I know for sure. That’s when your story gets really good.”

“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete.”

“When you're writing a story, it often feels less like you're doing architecture and more like you're doing excavation—we're just unearthing it.”

““Part of a large subconscious corpus of personal myth, like an island above the sea, but joined underwater to other islands.””

“I just think it’s part of storytelling.”

“Because I discovered very early on that broadcasting is the control of suspense.”

“Tragedy needs a strong storyteller, otherwise it doesn’t exist.”