6 Quotes by Blake Snyder

The point is that a good logline, in addition to pulling you in, has to offer the promise of more.

Save the what? I call it the “Save the Cat” scene. They don’t put it into movies anymore. And it’s basic. It’s the scene where we meet the hero and the hero does something – like saving a cat – that defines who he is and makes us, the audience, like him.

Because liking the person we go on a journey with is the single most important element in drawing us into the story.

True originality can’t begin until you know what you’re breaking away from.

To be a screenwriter is to deal with an ongoing tug of war between breathtaking megalomania and insecurity so deep it takes years of therapy just to be able to say “I’m a writer” out loud.

To know how to avoid the cliche, to know what tradition you are pushing forward, begins with knowing what that tradition is.