Hidden Narratives Quotes

We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way.

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.

I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

Memories contain hidden editorials on current events.

You know the old saying: "History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps hidden away in an underground bunker".

Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written about Jakarta, Manila, or London by anyone who had a feeling for the invisible truths of those places.

An obsession with untold stories is a source of energy.

I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.

Fundamentally, one of the things I tend to migrate toward when I'm working is a story about people whose stories aren't told in theater.

Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain

All the backstories are there but not talked about.

Every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen, or a conversation not held.

There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.

I'm interested in stories that aren't getting told: it's where my interests lie.

Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.

Beneath every history, another history.

It's time for storytellers to tell the stories that have not had the privilege of being shown to the world, and the audience will be there.

The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what happens behind the scenes on a TV screen - are important.

I personally tend to be drawn to stories that aren't paid much attention to, or stories that aren't on people's radar.