To retreat behind the notion that the audience simply wants to dump its troubles at the door and escape reality is a cowardly abandonment of the arti… - Robert McKee

Story isn’t a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality, our best effort to make sense out of the anarchy of existence.

Story isn’t a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality,

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

For while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also the case that the unlived life isn't worth examining.

First we must dig deeply into life to uncover new insights, new refinements of value and meaning, then create a story vehicle that expresses our interpretation to an increasingly agnostic world.