Narrative Choice Quotes

As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.

I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.

There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.

I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books.

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one.

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn't want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it's much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne.

Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.

I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person.

I've enjoyed the singular focus of not going back and forth between the two mediums. It isn't about the screen size so much as film being where the stories I'm most interested in telling happen to be at.

The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.

If the right idea comes up, and it feels true to talk about somebody being in a truck, and that's the only way to tell the story, then I will reluctantly tell the story that way.

I always make a point of keeping the most pleasant-sounding name for the murderer. As he or she is bound to come to an unpleasant end, it seems the very least the author can do.

I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be done. But I've always said that if a story would be more emotionally involving told, beginning, middle, and end, I'll tell it that way. I won't jigsaw it, just to show what a clever boy I am. I don't do anything in my script just to be clever.

If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

It all comes down to what is best for those particular genres, and if you believe in the stories that you're telling and the characters that you like that you want to tell those stories with, you can pretty much apply it to any genre.

As much as it's really important, obviously, as a woman in the industry to be choosing the stories which represent women, you also have to keep an eye on the male side.

I do not believe that I will ever write an adult novel from an animal's point of view unless someday it becomes suddenly appealing to me to make a narrator a mentally ill pet. Never say never.

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.