Screenwriting Guru Robert McKee Demystifies Character and Structure
The No Film School Podcast
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The Principles of Storytelling
i want to go back in time and talk about sort of where you started. Cause i know theatre was a huge influence. But one of the things i wanted to ask was just an overarching principal, do you feel that? Do you feel that there are truly consistent rules to good story telling, principles of storality? And so the answer, of course, is not. There are no rules. Every art form has certain principles, an or even better word, it has certain forms. For example, you almost never paint a painting on a square surface or a round surface, because those create symmetry. In order to create a certain tensionthat yyo need a rectangle. It's not
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