Buscamos lo trágico en lo cómico, lo político en lo personal, lo personal que guía lo político, lo extraordinario detrás de lo usual, lo trivial en l… - Robert McKee

When a society cannot ridicule and criticize its institutions, it cannot laugh. The shortest book ever written would be the history of German humor, a culture that has suffered spells of paralyzing fear of authority. Comedy is at heart an angry, antisocial art. To solve the problem of weak comedy, therefore, the writer first asks: What am I angry about? He finds that aspect of society that heats his blood and goes on an assault.

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

Who are these characters? What do they want? Why do they want it? How do they go about getting it? What stops them? What are the consequences? Finding the answers to these grand questions and shaping them into story is our overwhelming creative task.