Addresses Quote by Christopher Nolan

Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to build a…

— Peter Jackson

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

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

— Charlie Kaufman

I strongly believe that besides having good action, action-oriented films need to have a good baseline for the script.

— Sajid Khan

It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm…

— Alex Garland

The truth of the matter is this - I never look for films specifically, because ultimately if the fundamentals of the character and the…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I'm a stickler for structure. So I tend to make sure I'm hitting certain points in the script and that I'm progressing and moving…

— Allison Schroeder

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel:…

— Emma Donoghue

I look at the action scenes as placeholders when I arrive on a script, knowing that I'm going to expand on them when I…

— David Leitch

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

“Screenplays are structure, and that’s all they are. The quality of writing—which is crucial in almost every other form of literature—is not what makes…

— William Goldman

I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor,…

— William Mapother