Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.

As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.