{"quotes":[{"text":"Intuition is truth.","author":"A.D. Posey","tags":["ad-posey","awareness","be","energy","film","inspiration","intuition","life","love","peace","screenwriting","stories","storytellers","storytelling","truth","women","write","writers","writing"],"id":7753,"author_id":"A.D.+Posey"},{"text":"Screenwriting is made of brevity.","author":"A.D. Posey","tags":["ad-posey","brevity","inspirational","screenwriting","storytellers","storytelling","write","writers","writing","writing"],"id":30062,"author_id":"A.D.+Posey"},{"text":"If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.","author":"Robert McKee","tags":["screenwriting","writing","writing-craft"],"id":54937,"author_id":"Robert+McKee"},{"text":"Without the author there is nothing.","author":"Michael E. Bierman","tags":["screenwriting","writer"],"id":56182,"author_id":"Michael+E.+Bierman"},{"text":"Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay has worked. He has identified key qualities that many commercially successful screenplays share, he has codified a language that has been adopted by creative executives in both film and television. So there might be something of tangible value to be gained by interacting with his material, either in book form or at one of the seminars.But for someone who wants to be an artist, a creator, an architect of an original vision, the best book to read on screenwriting is no book on screenwriting. The best seminar is no seminar at all.To me, the writer wants to get as many outside voices OUT of his/her head as possible. Experts win by getting us to be dependent on their view of the world. They win when they get to frame the discussion, when they get to tell you there’s a right way and a wrong way to think about the game, whatever the game is. Because that makes you dependent on them. If they have the secret rules, then you need them if you want toget ahead.The truth is, you do.","author":"Brian Koppelman","tags":["art","artist","artists","autodidact","autodidactism","education","films","inspirational","literature","movies","narrative","screenplay","screenwriting","script","self-education","self-improvement","story","structure","writing"],"id":74969,"author_id":"Brian+Koppelman"},{"text":"Love is written by the soul.","author":"A.D. Posey","tags":["awareness","inspiration","love","love","peace","screenwriters","screenwriting","soul","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","truth","wisdom","women","writers","writers","written"],"id":83158,"author_id":"A.D.+Posey"},{"text":"That which is cool is driven by the soul.","author":"A.D. Posey","tags":["awakening","awareness","be","cool","energy","film-lovers","filmmaking","happiness","inspiration","laugh","live","love","mindfulness","peace","screenwriters","screenwriting","soul","spiritual-growth","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","stories","storytellers","storytelling","truth","women-in-film","women-wisdom","writers-life","writers"],"id":90059,"author_id":"A.D.+Posey"},{"text":"Vulnerability is not a weakness, it strengthensone and allows one to be okay with ones emotions. Be in touch with yourself.Be yourself!","author":"Christine Willson","tags":["empowerment","inspirational","screensavercw","screenwritersnwriters","screenwriting","womenempowerment"],"id":90431,"author_id":"Christine+Willson"},{"text":"... The midpoint of each film is the moment when each protagonist embraces for the first time the quality they will need to become complete and finish their story. It's when they discover a truth about themselves.","author":"John Yorke","tags":["film","filmmaking","screenwriting","structure"],"id":95381,"author_id":"John+Yorke"},{"text":"As a screenwriter - if you are completely honest with yourself - you can’t help but admit that your greatest threat is the audience, where audience is not understood as a demographic category but as a character outside the script to whom the story is addressed. A good part of the drama necessary for uncovering the story resides in the conflict between the storyteller and his/her audience. Audience plays the part of antagonist to the writer’s role as protagonist. The writer drives the action, which is forever complicated, frustrated and undermined by the audience’s needs and sensibilities. Audience wants you to prove it. Audience has a chip on its shoulder, and doesn’t give a damn. Audience has been there and done that in the guise of your mother, your father, your ex-, your worst enemy. Audience laughs at your stupidity and dares you to change its view of you and the story world that you would have it care about. Audience is defiant. It has your number. The only way you can defeat it is by carrying a bigger stick - your only defence is an inspired offence, namely the story.","author":"Billy Marshall Stoneking","tags":["audience","conflict","screenwriting","story","storytelling"],"id":102664,"author_id":"Billy+Marshall+Stoneking"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":52,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}