We cannot ask which is more important, structure or character, because structure is character; character is structure. - Robert McKee

The audience wants to be taken to the limit, to where all questions are answered, all emotion satisfied — the end of the line.

Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.

The art of story is not about the middle ground, but about the pendulum of existence swinging to the limits, about life lived in its most intense states. We explore the middle ranges of experience, but only as a path to the end of the line. The audience senses that limit and wants it reached. For no matter how