Narratively Quotes

#1. There has to be consistent emergence of two or three films - narratively, stylistically, consistently demonstrating you are here to go on. And on that kind of basis, I'm not seeing much. I'm just waiting to see.

Haile Gerima

#2. Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.

Rian Johnson

#3. watch William's beloved sport, but to him televised football was no more interesting, or even narratively intelligible, than a flea circus, so he got up and went to the kitchenette to do the other stations of the Yuletide cross.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#4. Speaking generally, I think it's useful to acknowledge explicitly the power imbalance between a journalist and the protagonists in a story about poor people, even to make that imbalance part of the story - and to redress it, narratively, where you can.

William Finnegan

#5. 'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it.

Eli Roth

#6. I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

Ava DuVernay

#7. It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

Alison Jackson

#8. The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.

Billy Corgan

#9. Then, since all great poets are strange in their speech and actions, he must have achieved great fame, for his actions and conversations were the strangest of any man I ever knew.

Robert E. Howard

#10. To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

David Brooks

#11. Where my comedy really solidified was when Bush was elected. I couldn't understand how craven and crass he was, and how dumb other people were for electing him.

David Cross

#12. Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

David Walker

#13. And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

Rick Perry

#14. See what you want, Aelin, and seize it. Don't ask for it; don't wish for it. Take it.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. I was planning to eat that, April says as Henry discovers a pudding and spoons it into his mouth with such intense concentration that I think his eyes have crossed.

Bethany Griffin

#16. Thanks Darling for the beautiful flowers and all the prayers. Now can you just get my puppy past security?

Elizabeth Taylor