When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.
Interpretation
The struggle in storytelling can indicate deeper conceptual flaws.
David E. Kelley highlights the importance of a story's foundational concept, suggesting that if significant effort is required to make a story come together, it may be a sign that the underlying idea needs reevaluation. This reflects the belief that storytelling should flow with a certain ease when the core premise is sound and well-thought-out.
In practice
A writer referring to this quote while discussing the challenges they face in their latest project.
You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.
The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.
The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before.
It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.
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