The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.
The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.
We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.'
A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.