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“Life sacrificed for the sake of one’s faith—”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“his simplistic ideas and noble vows about police work are not only useless but dangerous”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Day.Note that the Central Dramatic Question marks the point at which Proposition ends and Plot begins.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“But however creative your story is, it still has to be actable and it has to grip an audience”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“here we’re working with a two-sided proposition”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“So Price adapted the proposition of formal logic to drama, and it’s called the Central Proposition.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Continuous, coherent, compelling Dramatic Action is the name of the game.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“We want to keep it simple, unencumbered, and clear.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“In the beginning of Minority Report, Anderton is an absolute believer in Precrime and its ability to shape destiny, but by the end he is totally outside of its universe,”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Enneagram Five with a Four-Wing: “The Iconoclast”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“But this resource is a quick way to consider a large array of directions your story might take.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Let the situations talk to you.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“The best part of the writing process is the point at which anything goes. The story is still wide open and there’s a real sense of possibility, adventure, and raw excitement.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“5. Create flaws in your characters with the Average and Unhealthy aspects from their type.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Now let’s lay out a full statement of the dilemma, including all its aspects, layers, and dimensions.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“So what is the problem? Many screenwriters are intelligent and have good stories to tell, but they have yet to grasp the craft of the dramatist.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Each time we play with the variables in this way, the stakes go up and the viewers are gripped more intensely.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“five-step process and then lay out the three-sentence proposition.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“The proposition can unite a collection of story elements into one coherent plot.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“this process will help you stitch together all the story parts, scenes, and elements from your notes into one solid chain of events.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“also a villain,”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“We’re going to need a romantic interest,”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Sequence is the series of incidents that constitutes your script—the order of events that make up the forward flow of your story.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“the touch-off coming out around the two-thirds or three-quarters mark.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Remember that the oldest Greek theater had only two characters in the whole play. Try to envision your plot that stripped down.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Look at the characters in your scripts as though they were animals. Animals demonstrate naked behavior. They don’t rationalize why they’re trying to kill anyone who invades their territory—they just do it.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Drama has a tendency to be stripped of matters unessential to the plot. . . . In the best plays everything counts. There is no place for tangential material or merely graceful ornamentation.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“(The great science-fiction writer Alfred Bester talks about attack as a storyteller”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“he way in which the protagonist resolves the dilemma expresses the Theme of the piece.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

“Rivalry of a magician and an ordinary man — Alonzo is set as the magician and Jake is the ordinary man, but Alonzo learns that Jake is a magician in his own right, and praises his “magic eye.”
― Jeff Kitchen, Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting