All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.

Leaders use story to author the future.

Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters be your inspiration, you will express the 'idea' dynamically and without preaching.

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.