Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"
David MametThe Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
David Mamet