My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.
I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.
A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.