That's Eleni is a pencil.

A piece of paper would come in handy, and I'm gonna write some dialogue.

It's gonna take place in one place with two chairs, and that's all I need.

How do you teach people about drama?

You cannot learn how to write drama without writing plays, putting it on in front of an audience and getting humiliated, Hemingway said.

Writing is easy.

All you gotta do, sit down with the typewriter and bleed, throw away all the distractions and write something every plane, the seven beginning middle and an end, John Lucado said.

Not necessarily in that order.

And that's why French movies were so effing boring Rose to me.

Avery going simple.

Your job is to tell a story.

A story has a hero, and here she wants one thing.

If it doesn't tend toward the punch line, take it out.

Gossip is just creating dialogue, Millie says to him.

Blah, blah, blind Bob said Liberty, Liberty, But that's as good as dialogues.

Anybody else come right.

I would hope that you guys would be encouraged to save this class.

Clown can do so well.

I'll try it, too.

I'm not any less confused with new are I just got in the habit of doing it.

We only have ideas all the time.

Our mind is a raging fire.

At some point, you're gonna say, OK, it's gonna be bad.

You gotta stand being bad if you want to be a writer, because if you don't, you never get anything good.

Were given a great gift in a great responsibility, which is to tell stories as honestly as we can and experience things in process that are beautiful.

I'm David Mamet, and this is my master class.