Authentic Narrative Quotes

I look for the dark story, where something secret was done. I read and read and pick up the trail of a true story. I use nothing but true stories. They are so much better than phony ones.

What we want to see is stories that are going to be honest stories about the characters that we're telling them about.

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

With independent film, simply because they don't have the money to make a big-budget film, they're forced to make a story that's important to them, that they would like to see on film, a personal story that people can relate to, about people, where you can see the love of the characters.

I have no particular reader in mind, but a passionate desire to tell an honest, moving story.

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.

When you get to do something based on a true story, it always raises the level of excitement.

The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.

You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.

I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.

There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

It doesn't matter if it's aliens or emotional weapons or whatever - it's still a real story about big feelings that have to come out.

I write about everyday people, everyday lives.

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Mainstream news covers war and gets everything wrong. I'd rather learn what's happening from soldiers with combat experience. It's like a former NFL player giving play-by-play. We bring the expert commentary.

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

I have to be very clear and very honest. I'm not asking [ the American officials] to believe if they don't want to believe. This is reality, I'm telling you the reality from our country. We live here, we know what is happening, and they have to listen to people here. They cannot listen only to their media or to their research centers. They don't live here ; no one lives here but us.

For my first feature film, I just wanted to write something that people can relate to, something that was real. I really wanted it to hit home with people.

Speaking in Hindi has helped me a lot as I can tell my stories with the exact idiom in which they come to me. I think it also helps the audience when I am speaking in a language that is non-elite, so to say, as my stories are also from that perspective.

I think the more honest you are with the storytelling, the better it works.

The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.

I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message.

You can't sensationalize a story that is a heartfelt story.