Narrative Quotes

A new pain is an old pain wrapped in a new narrative.

In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables.

The structure of my novels has nothing to do with the narrative mode of cinema. My novels would be very difficult to film without ruining them completely.

European children are educated in a narrative of human tolerance every day, and if you want to be sure to prevent a backlash, you should at least think of bringing Muslim children and teenagers into the fold of that narrative of tolerance.

Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.

Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.