The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.
Interpretation
Engaging storytelling elicits emotions and connections from the audience.
This quote emphasizes the importance of emotional engagement in storytelling. Andrew Stanton suggests that a compelling narrative must resonate with the audience, making them feel invested in the characters and the plot, thereby creating a memorable experience that captures their attention and empathy.
In practice
During a writing workshop, when discussing the fundamentals of captivating narratives.
We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.
Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.
The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.
If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my earth like a tired fox, And my bufdfalo have found me.
It's a fact, the majority of films in Hollywood are from the male perspective. And the female characters, very rarely do they get to speak to another female character in a movie, and when they do it's usually about a guy, not anything else. So they're very male-centric, Hollywood films, in general. So I think it's incredible that Ned Benson, when I said I'd love to know where she goes, says okay, I'm going to write another film from the female perspective.
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