Narrator Quotes

Give generously knowing some poor helpless mutant will thank you. Not in person. Thank god. -Narrator. - Futurama

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

For years now, people have asked me whether I ever dream that I am 'in' Harry's world. The answer was 'no' until a few nights ago when I had an epic dream in which I was, simultaneously, Harry and the narrator. - J K Rowling

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. - Anne Rice

Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators. - Bruce Jackson

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

[The first half of the play deals with the Old Testament and as the narrator comments in a voice over:] In the beginning there was chaos ... We'll start with Genesis; everybody likes Genesis; especially when Peter Gabriel was the lead singer. - Star Wars

[T]he viewer is instructed by the narrator about exactly what to look for; his comments reinforce the notion that what we are about to see will be funny. Studio laughter accompanies each episode as a way of continually defining the actions as funny, prompting the home viewer to experience the scene as amusing, rather than feeling sympathy or compassion for the victim's plight, or searching to understand it. - Stanley Milgram