The creepy thing about battle is you always feel alone.
If your first scene doesn't give you a hard on, throw it out!
Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion.
Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.
A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.
Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.