The only way to know the truth is to witness him make choices under pressure to take one action or another in the pursuit of his desire. - Robert McKee

Si se reduce el número de espectadores, también se debe reducir el presupuesto. Ésa es la ley.

intimate or epic the setting, instinctively the audience draws a circle around the characters and their world, a circumference of experience that’s defined by the nature of the fictional reality. This line may reach inward to the soul, outward into the universe, or in both directions at once. The audience, therefore, expects the storyteller to be an artist of vision who can take his story to those distant depths and ranges.

Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.