Formulaic Quotes

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually... things get quite formulaic.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.