My top 10 favorite movies: 1. Interstellar 2. Pulp fiction 3. The Florida Project 4. Sideways 5. 12 Years a Slave 6. The Godfather 2 7. There Will Be Blood 8. The Hateful Eight 9. Apocalytpo 10. Pusher Notable mention: Do The Right Thing Django Life is Beautiful Aftersun

The first draft is “right brain”, meaning it centers around emotion and instinct, guided by logic but never superseded by it … if your instinct says x, you follow the magic Editing is “left brain” … pure analysis, logic, and reason, mixed with taste and pattern matching.

Write the story that moves you What moves others is secondary Light house in an ocean vs. a needle in a haystack