Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. To think of a plot that is, as Aristotle says, surprising and yet inevitable, is a lot, lot, lot of work.

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

The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question.

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.

Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.

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

Get into the scene late; get out of the scene early.