Always Quote by Charlie Kaufman

I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.

— John Milius

I believe in three-act structure. When I say that to novel people, or people in the world of books, they go, 'Well, that's a…

— Stephen J. Cannell

I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste of time. You've got too many people…

— Elmore Leonard

Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from…

— Jack Nicholson

I think a script is great when it starts with the structure and works with the structure without falling into the typical three-act system…

— Luca Guadagnino

You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are…

— Robert Towne

Well, I think if you're telling a story, a three act structure will just naturally emerge out of it. But I also love it…

— Panos Cosmatos

Spielberg gave us three takes before saying anything to us. Since then, I do that, three takes, to let the actors find their rhythm.

— Edward Burns

You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what…

— Paul Greengrass

I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not…

— Jane Campion

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is.…

— Charlie Kaufman

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala