It is the objective of the protagonist that keeps us in our seats.

As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).