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

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.

Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money.