Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.

This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.

Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.