Causes Quote by Judd Nelson

I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.

— Claude Lelouch

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

I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.

— Elizabeth Banks

When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by…

— Jason Reitman

There's the internal rhythm within a sequence, and then there's the rhythm between the sequences, and that's extremely important in constructing the narrative. For…

— Frederick Wiseman

For me in a film, almost every scene you end up cutting a bit of the start of it out, and some of the…

— Brian Helgeland

A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like…

— Robert Rodriguez

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

It's never the practice to shoot the scenes in the proper order. Sometimes you shoot the final scenes of a film before you've even…

— Luke Evans

Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans on voice-over at the beginning, then abandons…

— Taylor Sheridan

First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where…

— Jean Stapleton

A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence…

— Frederick Wiseman