Writing a Great Movie Quotes

“Cause: Smiley lets Jake go.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“We want to keep it simple, unencumbered, and clear.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“action flows.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“the set-up of the fight tends to occur about one-quarter to one-third of the way into the story, with the touch-off coming out around the two-thirds or three-quarters mark.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“conflict map”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Continuous, coherent, compelling Dramatic Action is the name of the game.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Constructing your script by using the process of Sequence, Proposition, Plot creates Unity of Action.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“we’re talking about doing this three-step process perhaps another fifteen or more times.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Plot is the back-and-forth between the protagonist and antagonist once the fight to the finish has started.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Plot is really a continuation of the two-sided argument from the Proposition stage, with the Central Dramatic Question as the pivotal point.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“if we’re not interested in the fate of the protagonist, then the movie isn’t compelling.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“here we’re working with a two-sided proposition”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“the Object of the script is that Jake defeats Alonzo, completes his training, and emerges anew as a powerful man.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Sequence is the series of incidents that constitutes your script—the order of events that make up the forward flow of your story.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Sequence, Proposition, Plot is so good at unifying and driving a script that the Hollywood studio creative executives who’ve learned it from me consistently say that it’s the most advanced development tool in the film industry.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“continuous Dramatic Action”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“The overall script should demonstrate good momentum and compelling conflict; each act, each sequence, and each scene should do the same.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Sequence, Proposition, Plot is an innovative outlining tool with several powerful features that strengthen and dramatize a script.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Sequence 1”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Proposition and Plot for Act III of Training Day:”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“the touch-off coming out around the two-thirds or three-quarters mark.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“the set-up of the fight tends to occur about one-quarter to one-third of the way into the story,”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“this process will help you stitch together all the story parts, scenes, and elements from your notes into one solid chain of events.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Day.Note that the Central Dramatic Question marks the point at which Proposition ends and Plot begins.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“If each sequence has good forward momentum and grips the audience, then you are creating continuous Dramatic Action.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“As you do Sequence, Proposition, Plot for each of the sequences, you’re fleshing out the mechanics of your story, further amplifying the detail as it becomes necessary.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“You use it first to sketch in the general outline of the story, rendering it both tight and dramatic. Then you break the script into acts and apply Sequence, Proposition, Plot to each act.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Within the context of Sequence, Proposition, Plot, the term Plot has a specialized definition.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“diagram below:”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Reverse cause and effect allows you to strip your plot in the same way that radically pruning a tree exposes the major branches.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting