People May Or May Not Say What

I Examined My Liberalism And Found It Like An Addiction To Roulette. Here, Though The Odds Are Plain, And The Certainty Of Loss Apparent To Anyone With A Knowledge Of Arithmetic, The Addict, Failing Time And Again, Is Convinced He Yet Is Graced With The Power To Contravene Natural Laws. The Roulette Addict, When He Invariably Comes To Grief, Does Not Examine Either The Nature Of Roulette, Or Of His Delusion, But Retires To Develop A New System, And To Scheme For More Funds.

I Know Very Well What It Is To Be Out Of Work And To Be Cheated By Employers And I Know What It Is To Be An Employer.

Forget Narrative, Backstory, Characterisation, Exposition, All Of That. Just Make The Audience Want To Know What Happens Next.

My Tendency As An Actor Was To Correct People, Was To Say, 'what If We Tried It This Way, What About If We Tried That Way?' That's Terrible Habit For An Actor, But That's A Good Habit For Director. So I Became A Director.

"based On A True Story" Is A Come-on, The Aesthetic Equivalent Of "no Loan Request Refused." For, At Best, The Creator Has Fashioned A Film Based On His Understanding Of, Interpretation Of, And Reduction Of The Report Of An Actual Occurrence.