:10:02
Maybe we should write our names
on our food items from now on.
:10:05
- What's with you?
- My back.
:10:08
Charles, you'll be glad. I have a plan
to get me out of your house, pronto.
:10:12
- A job is a plan. Is your plan a job?
- Drum roll, please.
:10:18
I'm gonna be a screenwriter.
Like you.
:10:21
I know you think this is just
one of my "get rich quick" schemes...
:10:24
...but I'm doing it right this time.
:10:26
I'm taking a three-day seminar,
and it's only 500 bucks.
:10:30
Screenwriting seminars are bullshit.
:10:33
In theory, I agree with you.
But this one's different.
:10:36
This one's highly regarded
in the industry.
:10:38
Donald, don't say "industry."
:10:40
I'm sorry. I forgot.
:10:42
Charles, this guy knows screenwriting.
:10:45
People come from all over
to study with him.
:10:47
- I'll pay you back as soon as l...
- Let me explain something.
:10:50
Anybody who says he's got "the answer"
is going to attract desperate people...
:10:53
...be it in the world of religion...
:10:55
I just need to lie down
while you explain this to me.
:10:58
Sorry. I apologize.
:11:00
Okay, go ahead.
:11:02
- So...
- Sorry. Okay. Go.
:11:05
There are no rules, Donald.
:11:06
And anybody who says there are
is just, you know...
:11:09
Not rules. Principles.
:11:12
McKee writes that a rule says,
"You must do it this way."
:11:16
A principle says, "This works
and has through all remembered time."
:11:21
The script I'm starting,
it's about flowers.
:11:24
Nobody's ever done a movie
about flowers before.
:11:27
- So there are no guidelines.
- What about Flowers for Algernon?
:11:31
Well, that's not about flowers.
And it's not a movie.
:11:33
I'm sorry. I never saw it.
:11:35
How...? Okay, keep going.
:11:37
Look, my point is
that those teachers are dangerous...
:11:40
...if your goal is to try
to do something new.
:11:42
A writer should always have that goal.
Writing is a journey into the unknown.
:11:45
It's not building, you know,
one of your model airplanes.
:11:53
McKee is a former Fulbright Scholar,
Charles.
:11:56
Are you a former Fulbright Scholar?