108 Quotes About Structure

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.

Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical

It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

They've let me know I have a support structure here and anything I need to get I can get.

All of a sudden, it's like we're Wal-Mart. We don't have the structure to do this.