When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.
The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story.
To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.
All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.
Stories build cultures by answering the big questions.
When people want to sound smart, they add syllables to words, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to books. They try to make up in quantity and complexity what they lack in quality. That's bullshit! They're just hiding their bullshit!