What goes into writing a great movie script?

Learn to tell a story orally and not through writing. Try telling your story to a friend.

Your primary job is to create situations. Modern actors will fuck up your dialogue, despite whatever your contract says.

Maintain a slush pile/idea file. When you are ready to write, choose the best seeds to plant.

Republican Trump is a billionaire, president, won't be held accountable for multiple felonies, and pretty much has whatever he wants. So why is he always whining and crying about stupid, pointless stuff? Is he incapable of happiness?

What you leave unwritten is as important as what you write. SUBTEXT.

Use status to help drive conflict. King Lear/fool. Upstairs/downstairs.

Don’t direct from the page. Everyone, from the director on down, wants to be part of the process of making movies. Let them do their work.

What's the most valuable lesson you've learned in life, and how has it impacted your journey so far?

Get up there yourself. Be in a movie. Take some acting (not writing) classes. Learn how a trained actor approaches a text. Learn why actors take roles. They do as much if not more than the writer does.

All rules are made to be broken, but you damn well better know WHY you’re breaking them.

Conflict is your power source; without it you have no drama and hence no script.

What happens if someone fills up their car at the pump but leaves without paying? How is this situation typically handled?

Only God gets it right the first time. Rewrite everything.

People choose what to see based on the high concept. Make sure to deliver an ending consistent with the high concept -- it is what the audience paid for.

The DSM 5 is a wonderful character compendium.

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Leave holes. Write and unwrite. Put it in, take it out.

A critical function of storytelling is wish fulfillment. This is why video games are so popular. “That protagonist is JUST LIKE ME.”

Audiences are smarter than you think. Something about turning down the house lights makes their IQs go up.

Do you wear tights for warmth or to make your legs look better?

Outline everything. Use story beats. Keep character’s mouths taped up, until they absolutely MUST speak. Write the script and the dialogue at the last minute, after you’ve revised the hell out of the outline.

Actors give better feedback than writers do.

A scene should change valence from beginning to end. Up to down, down to up.

How do you explain BYD selling more battery electric vehicles than Tesla in Europe for the first time in April?

Research the facts and then throw away the research.

To develop a unique voice for each character, try interviewing your characters.

Cut everything that is not a payoff, or a setup for a specific payoff. “Omit needless words.” Think about the sparseness of joke telling, or Grimm Brothers.

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Write in reverse time. Major characters need to change polarity; minor characters may remain the same at the end.

Make sure to pack enough explosives into the rocket.

Primary characters must change polarities. Secondary characters can change less.

Why are flat Earthers made fun of when they seemingly don't exist? I have only met one flat Earther in 18 years.