against casting tape fiction
If I had to throw a net over all of the reasons why we don’t like certain movies or books, it would be this: we quit believing what we’re seeing is real.
Bill Arnett • The Complete Improviser: Concepts, Techniques, and Exercises for Long Form Improvisation
Eliminate all camera and editing notations.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
The camera has replaced actual looking and turned life into evidence.
David Sedaris • A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)
distrust of objective storytelling.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
fine writing puts less stress on what happens than on to whom it happens and why and how it happens.