[Will Turner] “You didn’t beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement.”[Captain Jack Sparrow] “…that’s not much incentive for me to fight fair then is it?

The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even...

Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.

When you look for beauty, you usually end up finding it.From Central Park Song (A Screenplay)

ERIC: What are you always writin’ in that book anyway?RODNEY: Poetry.TYRONE: Poetry?Rodney stops sketching and sentimentally flips through a few dozen pages of sketches and handwritten poems and notes.RODNEY: Poetry and pictures. Snapshots of our...

It’s much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that’s how we view it, I think.

There’s cat feces in my Batman costume, and all the lines in my screenplay were snorted by the neighborhood cokehead. Ah, but that’s life, no?

Captain Harvile: Poor Phoebe, she would not have forgotten him so soon. It was not in her nature. Anne Elliot: It would not be in the nature of any woman who truly loved. Captain Harvile:...

……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this: You cannot imagine how...

Our fingerprints don’t fade from the lives we’ve touched.

There’s nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.