Episode 898 - David Mamet
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
What I Learned From Second City
Second City's structure of a seven minute scene with a payoff was extraordinarily influential in me. You work in that, you got to beginning with the suggestion, then you riff and then you got to have an out. So that really taught me a lot about drama because if the scene doesn't have an ending, there's no reason to go on to the next scene.
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