Quotes About Foreshadowing

'Lost' is such a thematic show that I'm always afraid that if I know something's going to happen at the end, I'll subconsciously write something in where someone who's astute will go, 'Oh, he used so-and-so's theme: that must mean so-and-so is coming back!'

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.

It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.

Planning is bringing the future into the present.

sense the story like an approaching storm

I know that. I've read it before,' 'Is that so? What is it like to read a novel when you know what's going to happen?' 'Once you know the story, you can notice other things.

The fact is, it is seldom indeed that any wrong one suffers is not thoroughly foreshadowed by wrongs one has done.

Already she fancied she could see the shadow of tomorrow faintly clouding his face...

Every incident in the Old Testament was considered to pre-figure in allegory what was to come in the New.

I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it. I have given you two events in advance, because I don't have much interest in building mystery. Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.

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

There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true.

Goosefeather

Problems always start long before you really, really see them.

The problem started long before that, of course. Problems always start long before you really, really see them.

I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing of grief and mourning.

recomendaba: «Si hay un rifle apoyado en la pared en el primer acto, tiene que dispararse en el segundo. De lo contrario, no pinta nada ahí».

Firestar seemed to see the first cloud that would eventually unleash the storm of war.

I never believed I could write anything. No way - write a whole story? Figuring out all that plotting and symbolism? How do you foreshadow things?

Anyone who's been reading my stuff can see that there's a lot of tracks being laid for future stories.

And ... by the pricking of my thumbs, something morally ambiguous this way comes.

Anton Chekhov said that, when the audience sees a loaded pistol on the wall in act 1, it must go off by act 3.

The camera should never anticipate what's about to follow.