In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility. - Robert McKee

The most important question we ask when writing a Love Story is: “What’s to stop them?” For where’s the story in a Love Story? Two people meet, fall in love, marry, raise a family, support each other till death do them part … what could be more boring than that?

If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.

Within the first pages of a screenplay a reader can judge the relative skill of the writer simply by noting how he handles exposition.