Chad Aaron Hall

The cliché is to have a character inform another character with an info dump or a quote and have the other character react to hearing it as if they are hearing it for the first time or learning something. What is more interesting is to have the second character already know what the first person tells them. This imbues the second character with

It’s incredible. You think you’re dying. You feel death enter your body. A doctor comes. He says you’re find, and you’re ready to swim the English Channel.

— Sophia, The Golden Girls, S1E10 The Heart Attack

satisfycing

Making a choice that isn’t the best per se but is good enough.

How much will the decision alter your overall happiness?

When adapting a book to a movie, you lose the narrator—even with voiceover. With that, you also lose the internal knowledge the narrator provides the audience. The intimate scenes between characters become more important for maintaining emotional pull. If you cut these as well, you are left with nothing but a vapid chain of events.

Myself, I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. You want to be immortal? Fight to be immortal. Do it. You want to make the most fantastic art or movie? Try. If you fail, is not important. We

“I’m Catholic, which is the best religion because we have the most rules…”

St. Vincent

“…he may be a naive idiot, but he’ll always be hopeful, so he’ll always be happy.”

— House, MD // S7E20 Changes