Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brill… - Robert McKee

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly

A working imagination is research.

Do I bludgeon my brains against this wall or do I find some way to get through my days with value?

A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society.