#narrative

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#art #art forms #art history #cinema #culmination

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#creativity #dependent #directions #entirely #fiction

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#container #create #itself #narrative #people

Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#also #both #brought #brutality #building

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. ↗

— Norman Macleod

#cannot #character #character development #children #complex

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#great #narrative #novel #poetry #produced

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#forms #narrative #poems #poets #southern

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#century #known #long #lot #many

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#books #call #children #clue #containing

December 29, 1946: Snowing this morning. The year seems to be dying in a light white blanket. Only three more days of this year, then comes a new one. Then, what? No one knows. -- Diary of Bertha Kate Gaddis who passed away 6 months later, age 78, West Lafayette, IN. ↗

— Angie Klink

#educators #narrative #women-s-strength #age