Epic Narrative Quotes

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.

'Samurai' is not an animated show like you would normally watch on TV. We tell the stories from a different perspective - backward, very nonlinear. It treats it more seriously as an art form.

The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have.

Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set.

An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

The natural milieu I inhabit is more in epic storytelling.

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.

We've been given this great gift, this huge canvas of these beautiful books by George Martin, and the idea of telling this whole epic through to the end is incredibly compelling.

An eight-hour movie is definitely not a two-hour movie. An eight-hour movie is really like five independent films, if you think about it, because each is usually an hour and a half. In some ways, it is like making a movie. It's just a lot more information.

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

Norman is a very up-close, personal, character drama and I'd like to do something more zoomed out, a little more pastoral, some sweeping epic. I'd like to try something different.

I want to do character driven epic storylines with Throne of Atlantis kicking off.

I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear.

My life is a vast inconsequential epic.

[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.

One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.

Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

We write in a culture that favors the heft of the novel. Better still if the novel in question is large enough to be wielded interchangeably as a doorstop and a weapon.

In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.