Yes, Obama duped young people by not doing every single thing they want. So now, they’ll all vote Republican. It’s like when I want some bread, I won’t settle for half a loaf. Instead, I will have a muffin made of broken glass.
— Stephen Colbert (via jazzyjenn)

Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies-“God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
— Kurt Vonnegut (via thadeej)

"Mock Trials: a Mockumentary" is a screenplay I wrote that a Portland, Oregon based production company called SoundSkript Entertainment is making into a feature-length movie. 

It’s going to be a low-budget, indie-film type thing, but it can be slightly less low-budget if you donate to our KickStarter

Also, please let all of your rich Hollywood executive-producer friends know. Gracias. 

First you start with an idea, then you start to flesh out the structure, and that’s a long process. I think that’s where we spend a lot of time, just figuring out the structure… all the acts… the beats of the story. And then comes the great leap which is the first draft, I call it ‘the muscle draft,’ where you just muscle it out. You don’t worry about what you’re missing, you just get through it, get to the end… You find that a lot of novice screenwriters will spend years on the first act and it’ll turn into the best first act in the world, but you need to have the whole picture. I think I read an interview with George Lucas saying that the best advice he got from Coppola was, ‘Just get through it.’
— Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Pi, The Fountain)

When I wrote for Larry Sanders, Garry Shandling always talked about “writing from your core.” Whenever we got stuck, before we’d work on any jokes, he’d say, “What would really happen? What would the truth in this moment be?” He said “The Larry Sanders Show is about people who love each other, but show business gets in the way. ALL stories are about people who love each other, but something’s getting in the way. It’s ALWAYS about something blocking love.” It never would have occurred to me that that’s what Larry Sanders was about, but it made perfect sense. … That idea changed the way I look at ALL stories.
— Judd Apatow in Satiristas! (via leilacohanmiccio)