Cinema Quote by Panos Cosmatos

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 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

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

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 love the three-act theory. It works and works beautifully. But you don't necessarily have to structure a story that way: Cortazar and Borges…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go…

— Rob Marshall

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until…

— M. Night Shyamalan

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

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

Telling the story with only a few shots, I love that style. It makes you feel like you're part of the action, part of…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

You might only get three takes to do a scene; sometimes it takes longer than that to find those moments.

— Asa Butterfield

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel…

— Donnie Yen