Quotes About Climax

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.

I wanted to score the winning goal in the 90th minute of the World Cup final.

It should never be a surprise that progress seems to slow as the finish line approaches, even if everyone is working just as hard as they were before.

The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.

Persuasion may play a part in a man's conversion; but only the part of bringing to its full and conscious climax a process which has been maturing in regions where no persuasion can penetrate. A faith is not acquired; it grows like a tree.

And Cameron did base his vision of the forests of Pandora partly) on the coral reefs he encountered in the ocean's depths. This is appropriate because a coral reef, like a rain forest is an example of a climax ecosystem a complex and rich environment in which large numbers of animals and plants have coevolved

The art of the pitch was to keep it clear, quick, with a good sense of suspense toward a climax, leading to a single conclusion. It had to be a story, in other words.

Everything leads to this, he thought. To this elevation. If it's how dying feels, everyone should be glad to go.

Case closed, game over, zip up your fly.

The author and screenwriter William Goldman says that "the key to all story endings is to give the audience what it wants, but not in the way it expects.

Jabor finally appeared at the top of the stairs, sparks of flame radiating from his body and igniting the fabric of the house around him. He caught sight of the boy, reached out his hand and stepped forward. And banged his head nicely on the low-slung attic door.

I shall be like that tree, I shall die at the top.

There was a terminal narrative. It was a story until it stopped being a story and until then they kept wanting to know. Give up... Surrender your need for the detail; there is only one way this is going to end.

Chapter Twenty-Five

Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap.

I wanted to do 'Kanchana' in Hindi but many heroes I approached were hesitant to act with the saree and also demanded that the climax song be removed completely. I wrote the script with such passion that I could not agree for any compromise.

Anytime you're playing a major, the last four or five holes, it's not going to be easy. It's never a guarantee. It's never easy.

Hell, at this point, I can't imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax.

The climax is when you are taught the lesson that Punch never learns, and you are caught and charged with murder.

Hell, at this point, I can't imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax.

We are one long frightening climax.

Perhaps all life was like that--dull and then a heroic flurry at the end.

This is the end of our sentence