Narrator Quotes

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

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.

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.

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.