"When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies th… - Robert McKee

When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates.

We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad.

The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.

Story is metaphor for life.