Acts Quote by Stephen J. Cannell

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

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

Someone told me once - I mean I said, "Is it ok that I don't really know what the three-act structure is?" And he…

— George Saunders

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 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

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

When we look at films, we usually see only the action. Yet it is the decision to act that helps us understand how the…

— Linda Seger

A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the project down…

— Steven Pressfield

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

Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'

— Nick Nolte

Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first…

— Simon Pegg

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