Narrator Quotes (page 3)

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• character
• unless
• able

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

• camera
• activity
• activities

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

• work
• design
• picture

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that. Temple Grandin

• character
• question
• ask

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. Griffin Dunne

• literature
• camera
• cameras

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

• him
• thinking
• narrators

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

• time
• character
• universe

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

• personality
• running
• personal

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

• mind
• mindfulness
• movie

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

• retirement
• baseball
• job

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

• camera
• friday
• week

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

• purpose
• experience
• deep

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. David Herbert Lawrence

• narration
• voiced
• hearing voices

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

• drama
• would
• doubles

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

• sports
• entertaining
• entertained

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