Narration Quotes

Narration Quote of the day

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.

Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.

I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in reading it.

Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.

Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of painting or sculpture.

The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought in memoirs.

World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.

I love working with Lars [von Trier]! I've worked with him three times. I did the narration of Dogville and Manderlay.

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.

I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.

I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering.

This land has brought forth numerous children, favouring both the bad and the good ones. It is not the land that is responsible for the people’s hardships, it is the people themselves. Pg.8

A director's dream? No, Bollywood reality in 1995.Business is booming, but cliché's are passée. A different sort of breeze-fresh, young-is unsettling fatigued conventions.

You should author the narration of your life and organization. If you don't, someone will, and you may not like it.

The starting point to freedom is to begin questioning the cultural narrative you have been sold.

Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life.

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,