“Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.” -Chuck Jones Farce is one of the most difficult, challenging forms
“Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else.” – Eudora Welty. Using Setting
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – Ernest Hemingway. Storytelling doesn’t
“It all depends on how we look at things and not how they are in themselves.” -Carl Jung In Storytelling, The Audience Has a Perspective,
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.” -Roger “Verbal” Kint, The Usual Suspects, Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie.
“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what
“For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a
“MYTH: ‘Show, don’t tell’ is literal-Don’t tell me John is sad, show him crying.” REALITY: ‘Show, don’t tell’ is figurative-Don’t tell me John is sad,
“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.”