Story is about originality, not duplication

There is no screenplay-writing recipe that guarantees your cake will rise.

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.

Leaders use story to author the future.

Never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you do.

Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.