I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

- Brian Eno

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

- Christopher Eccleston

The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences.

- Chris Avellone

I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering.

- Cynthia Nixon

If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing; the narrative of film is different from that of a book.

- Clive Owen

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

- Carter Burwell

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

- Cate Blanchett

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.

- C. S. Lewis

There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.

- Bruce Feiler

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

- Bruce Springsteen

The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I discovered the lyric poem, that advanced not by narrative steps but by blocks and layers of imagery, I said, 'Gee, I probably could do that. So let me try that.'

- Billy Collins

Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.

- Barry Ritholtz

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

- Barry Ritholtz

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

- Asghar Farhadi

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

- Ajay Naidu

I hear music as narrative.

- Ajay Naidu

I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.

- Alan Furst

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

- Annie Dillard

I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu