I can’t write anything at all.” “That’s your problem, right there.” “Don’t tell me what my problem is.” “Your problem,” I said, “is that you can’t say no to everything,” I went on, “and say yes at the same time. You can’t cancel one emotion without canceling them all. You can’t hate love—not without hating every other feeling, too. Stories exist for the emotions they create—and you can’t write them if you can’t feel them. This screenplay is a chance for you. You can make anything good”—I was almost pleading now—“but you can’t make it good without believing in it. You can’t bring this story to
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