Unconventional Endings Quotes

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings.

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.

I want stories where you either hate it or love it. I want to do movies like that, where it's not show and tell, where it's not, 'This is it, and now you reveal the ending, and that's that.'

All good books wind up, I think, with the writer getting his teeth bashed in.