Conventions Quote by Wallace Shawn

Whenever a film doesn't follow to the letter the preset strict conventional rules of today's commercial cinema, it's considered weird.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

— Mary Catherine Bateson

I strongly believe film should create conversations around themes we are grappling with as a society.

— Stacy Martin

I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a…

— Christopher Nolan

When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad.…

— Mary Harron

In fiction, we are not bound by social convention, so the things that mystify and unsettle are allowed to rise to the surface.

— Laura van den Berg

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

— Hedy Lamarr

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.

— Quentin Crisp

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

I've never been interested in the convention of dialogue that facilitates narrative-it's always sort of bored me. I find myself zoning out just listening…

— Rick Alverson

I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject…

— Woody Allen