All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant. - Robert McKee

Creativity isn't learning the right answers but asking the strongest questions.

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.

First we must dig deeply into life to uncover new insights, new refinements of value and meaning, then create a story vehicle that expresses our interpretation to an increasingly agnostic world.