I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room.
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.
A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative.
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.
What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to get into that narrative and bring the audience along.
That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.
Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.
Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative from Genesis to Revelation.
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.
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 the sojourn at Sinai.
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
