Story Finale Quotes

And in stories, endings matter.

A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.

Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.

Every great story deserves a great ending

When you're doing a movie, it's finite - you have a trajectory of where your character's going, and you follow that. Then the storybook closes.

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.

We all hate those stories that end with 'And that's the story.'

It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.

I like it when shows end intentionally, and Review, especially, has such a long form narrative that it feels like you need to give it a thoughtfully constructed finale.