Narrative Thread Quotes

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell.

If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the conversation with readers. Maybe I'm writing one long narrative, and each book, however different from the last, is just a chapter.

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the narrative thread remains the same.

In the end, with all of my films, I want to understand the continuity between these films and understand what they're trying to do.