#narrator

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#clear #first-person #hitchcock #like #literature

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie. ↗

— Al Pacino

#coppola #cut #days #did #directions

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#constantly #instead #like #narrator #omniscient

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#baseball #eastman #first #job #narrator

I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before. ↗

— Rick Moody

#because #before #big #big deal #character

A LAST NOTE FROM YOUR NARRATOR I am hunted by humans. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#humans #liesl #narrator #sad #stupid

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#narrator #the-great-gatsby #remember

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#achieved #achievements #against #back #backdrop

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be. ↗

— John McTiernan

#camera #narrator #thriller

It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar. ↗

— David Attenborough

#commercials #figure #i #liar #motherhood