Cinema Quote by Jane Campion

A funny thing about film is that it's the only medium where people say there are really rules that you have to stick to.…

— Steven Knight

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

There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind…

— Charlie Kaufman

You go to the cinema and you realize you're watching the third act. There is no first or second act. There is this massive…

— Dustin Hoffman

I'm never so into the three-act movie thing. I know that's the form that people talk about, but it seems to me, in the…

— James Lapine

It's better to focus on one film rather than take up two or three films at the same time.

— Kriti Sanon

Some people have iconic directors in their mind, or they want to make particular styles of films they have seen before. I think this…

— Takashi Miike

The process of making films is so technically demanding that it's a distraction. You don't spend your time thinking about the philosophical content, which…

— Woody Allen

I think a lot of people have become quite disenfranchised with action films, especially when they hide the choreography with quick cuts and close-ups.

— Gareth Evans

We live lives that aren't broken into neat three-act structures. On any given day anything can happen, from the hilarious to tragic. So why…

— Rick Famuyiwa

I find most American films annoy me because their third act tends to be tying up loose ends and returning to moral values and…

— David Mackenzie

I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express…

— Brian Lindstrom