Arbitrary Quote by Abbas Kiarostami

I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you…

— Martin McDonagh

The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an…

— Peter Greenaway

In a play, you know where you start and end and all the stops you have to do, but in television, you can't construct…

— Caitlin Fitzgerald

When you are working on a movie, you have to ensure that the journey of characters ends in two hours.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

It's strange, 'cause a play, you start at the beginning and you go all the way through to the end. So it's naturally very…

— Judd Nelson

I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and…

— Mark Boal

In a film, you only have a finite amount of time, and you're so concerned with saying what happened and making it a gripping…

— Lisa Joy

When you're doing a movie, it's finite - you have a trajectory of where your character's going, and you follow that. Then the storybook…

— Cobie Smulders

Personally, I think that the story is all-important; everything else comes later. But if there's any other way to ensure the betterment of the…

— Rishi Kapoor

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

— Alan Rickman

It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people…

— Brendan Gleeson

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of…

— Lucy Liu