Your Mother Will Never See You Again

Movie Characters Rarely Get To Think Out Loud Or Talk Very Much About Their Emotions. Instead They Have To, Very Briefly, Show Their Feelings Through Their Action Or Through Dialog.

I Wrote One Terrible Manuscript After Another For A Decade And I Guess They Gradually Got A Little Less Terrible. But There Were Many, Many Unpublished Short Stories, Abandoned Screenplays And Novels... A Library Of Congress Worth Of Awful Literature.

Abraham Lincoln Comes From Nothing, Has No Education, No Money, Lives In The Middle Of Nowhere On The Frontier. And Despite The Fact That He Suffers One Tragedy And One Setback After Another, Through Sheer Force Of Will, He Becomes Something Extraordinary: Not Only The President But The Person Who Almost Single-handedly United The Country.

Abraham," He Said. "i'm Pleased To See You Alive, Old Friend." "and I To See You Dead.

If A Movie Has More Characters Than An Audience Can Keep Track Of, The Audience Will Get Confused And Lose Interest In The Story.