an ending must be both “inevitable and unexpected. - Robert McKee

There is no such thing as a portable story. An honest story is at home in one, and only one, place and time.

Aristotle wrote The Poetics, the “secrets” of story have been as public as the library down the street. Nothing in the craft of storytelling is abstruse. In fact, at first glance telling story for the screen looks deceptively easy. But moving closer and closer to the center, trying scene by scene to make the story work, the task becomes increasingly difficult, as we realize that on the screen there’s no place to hide.

Dialogue concentrates meaning; conversation dilutes it.