...story is first, last, and always the experience of aesthetic emotion - the simultaneous encounter of thought and feeling. - Robert McKee

No one needs yet another recipe book on how to reheat Hollywood leftovers. We need a rediscovery of the underlying tenets of our art, the guiding principles that liberate talent. No matter where a film is made — Hollywood, Paris, Hong Kong — if it’s of archetypal quality, it triggers a global and perpetual chain reaction of pleasure that carries it from cinema to cinema, generation to generation.

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.

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.