Leigh Whannell Quotes

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

Less is almost always better than more. Short words, short sentences, short speeches.

It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting is in its terseness, saying a lot with a little. I have no patience when I read a script where the writer describes this guy and what he's wearing and his glasses and his hair.

Most things in life are better when you just cut to the chase.

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write a thank you note, and it's five sentences - that's me. I like to pare away words because I don't want to waste anyone's time.

I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

I say what I need to, not a whole lot more.

To say more, is to say less.

But the shortest works are always the best.

I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

Be brief. Above all things be brief.

Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler.

Never say more than is necessary.