Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact. - Robert McKee

Stories are the currency of human relationships.

They think life is A, B, C, D, E. That’s just when life likes to turn you around, kick you in the butt, and grin: “Not today, my friend. Today it’s E, D, C, B, A. Sorry.” PRINCIPLE

El peligro es el siguiente: cuando nuestra premisa es una idea que pensamos que debemos demostrar al mundo y diseñamos nuestro relato como un certificado irrechazable de esa idea, nos embarcamos en la didáctica. En nuestro afán por convencer reducimos el poder del otro lado. Utilizamos mal nuestro arte, y abusamos de él para sermonear, y así nuestros guiones se convierten en películas de tesis, en sermones vagamente disfrazados cuando intentamos convertir al mundo de una única pincelada.

Beyond imagination and insight, the most important component of talent is perseverance — the will to write and rewrite in pursuit of perfection. Therefore, when inspiration sparks the desire to write, the artist immediately asks: Is this idea so fascinating, so rich in possibility, that I want to spend months, perhaps years, of my life in pursuit of its fulfillment? Is this concept so exciting that I will get up each morning with the hunger to write? Will this inspiration compel me to sacrifice all of life's other pleasures in my quest to perfect its telling? If the answer is no, find another idea. Talent and time are a writer's only assets. Why give your life to an idea that's not worth your life?