You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

It is the objective of the protagonist that keeps us in our seats.

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.