Quotes About Climax

Screenplays are structure, and that's all they are. The quality of writing—which is crucial in almost every other form of literature—is not what makes a screenplay work. Structure isn't anything else but telling the story, starting as late as possible, starting each scene as late as possible. You don't want to begin with "Once upon a time," because the audience gets antsy.

Jackendoff and Lerdahl point out that large structures in music can be like dramatic arcs in narratives. The slow buildup of tension, a climax, and then denouement can be found in both musical pieces and stories. It may be that both music and language exploit a human predisposition to understand events in terms of tension and resolution.

A story always ends just when it comes to an end. Like a breath.

Each scene in a story is a battle, and the story entire is a war.

Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

The end crowneth the work.

'Prom' is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers' lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all their struggles and the social pressures that prom creates on their lives.

The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.

Musicals are made of several climaxes that keep growing and growing; when you think it's over, it still continues growing up in plateaus.

I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act".

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

William Shakespeare

stopped, gasping at the air. The nail turned

The only time that my wife and I had a simultaneous orgasm was when the judge signed the divorce papers.

You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.

I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess, but you can see that there aren't fifty pages left, and you know that the finish can't be far off.

At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the ongoing fighting in Russia, where the Red Army was secretly preparing its vast encirclement of the Germans' Army Group Centre.

But suddenly it was no longer a rehearsal.

I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.

Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.

The final magnificent spark of a firework is only the last seconds of the fall. Though it's invisible to most, it's the way up that creates all the impact.

Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.