Sublime

Rules of Production: 1. Safety to people 2. Safety to property 3. Make a good film!

Aristotle teaches us to think of ACTION as the IDEA of a story. In fact, he says that action is more important than people; that is, characters. Aristotle is fanatical about the need for our stories to be about action, about action that is larger than life itself and greater than the persons who partake in it.

research of memory, research of imagination, research of fact.

Dialogue doesn’t require complete sentences.

interior life a novel must be reinvented for the screen.

Or: What’s the best possible thing that could happen to my protagonist? How could it become the worst possible thing?

principals must be written in depth—they cannot be at heart what they seem to be at face.

Seek a design that expresses the spirit of the original yet stays within the rhythms of a film,

Remember: 31-33 pages for Act One is acceptable, but a perfect 30-page Act One is golden. Readers will love you.