Quotes About Climax
There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
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'Avengers 3' has a beginning, middle, and a very definitive end, and 'Avengers 4' does the same.
~ Joe Russo
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Every story has its demands.
~ Clint Eastwood
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The feeling a writer gets when the last word is typed is almost as good as an orgasm.
~ Ricky Ginsburg
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The love interest and climax would come when a man and a lady, both strangers, got to talking together on the train going back east. "Well," said Mrs. Croot, for it was she, "what did you think of the Canyon?" "Some cave," replied her escort. "What a funny way to put it!" replied Mrs. Croot. "And now play me something.
~ Ring Lardner
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Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at the end of World War Two in history, and I can't wait to find out who wins.
~ Rob Thomas
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One of the most important elements in the rhythm of drama is suspense
~ Robert Greene
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But it was an ending.
~ Robert Jordan
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En el primer acto van a plantear cuál es su problema, en el segundo acto lo van a confrontar y en el tercer acto le encontrarán una solución.
~ Laura Esquivel
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I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I'd miss would be the best part.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
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I couldn't decide if it was a new orgasm, or if it was just an extra ending for the first one.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
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Not everyone requires, nor seeks, the stimulus of the recurring image. They are content to be without directions. But for those of us who are branded by this particular mark, at least we know where we're going. We are going, as it were, on a series of seasonal journeys, the climax of which is simply returning home.
~ Laurie Lee
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of the Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Something about this place screams denouement.
~ Adrian McKinty
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At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.
~ Jerry Coleman
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He marched toward his climax: "If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands; but if we fail then the whole world, including the United States, and all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more prolonged, by the lights of a perverted science.
~ Erik Larson
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The stakes—what your protagonist is risking—should increase in significance as the story progresses.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
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You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.
~ Jennifer McMahon
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People always complain that superhero movies end with a big fight scene where they're tearing up a city, and there's a portal opening up, and they have to close it... I wanted to have a climactic scene that subverted those familiar ideas.
~ Scott Derrickson
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I am not the hero of this film. It is Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy. The story is related to him. That doesn't mean that 'Kshetram' is a devotional subject. The climax scenes will have the audience in tears. No, it is not a sentimental drama either. Devotional values have been interspersed with commercial elements in this film.
~ Jagapathi Babu
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Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.
~ Chiaki Kuriyama
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an ending must be both "inevitable and unexpected.
~ Robert McKee
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Story Climax is the fourth of the five-part structure. This crowning Major Reversal is not necessarily full of noise and violence. Rather, it must be full of meaning. If I could send a telegram to the film producers of the world, it would be these three words: "Meaning Produces Emotion." Not money; not sex; not special effects; not movie stars; not lush photography.
~ Robert McKee
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A revered Hollywood axiom warns: "Movies are about their last twenty minutes." In other words, for a film to have a chance in the world, the last act and its climax must be the most satisfying experience of all. For no matter what the first ninety minutes have achieved, if the final movement fails, the film will die over its opening weekend.
~ Robert McKee
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