:10:01
Maybe we should write our names
on our food items from now on.
:10:04
-What's with you?
-My back.
:10:07
Charles, you'll be glad. l have a plan
to get me out of your house, pronto.
:10:11
-A job is a plan. ls your plan a job?
-Drum roll, please.
:10:17
l'm gonna be a screenwriter.
Like you.
:10:21
l know you think this is just
one of my ''get rich quick'' schemes...
:10:23
...but l'm doing it right this time.
:10:25
l'm taking a three-day seminar,
and it's only 500 bucks.
:10:29
Screenwriting seminars are bullshit.
:10:32
ln theory, l agree with you.
But this one's different.
:10:35
This one's highly regarded
in the industry.
:10:37
Donald, don't say '' industry.''
:10:39
l'm sorry. l forgot.
:10:41
Charles, this guy knows screenwriting.
:10:44
People come from all over
to study with him.
:10:46
-l'll pay you back as soon as l--
-Let me explain something.
:10:49
Anybody who says he's got ''the answer''
is going to attract desperate people...
:10:53
...be it in the world of religion--
:10:54
l just need to lie down
while you explain this to me.
:10:57
Sorry. l apologize.
:10:59
Okay, go ahead.
:11:01
-So--
-Sorry. Okay. Go.
:11:04
There are no rules, Donald.
:11:05
And anybody who says there are
is just, you know--
:11:08
Not rules. Principles.
:11:11
McKee writes that a rule says,
''You must do it this way.''
:11:15
A principle says, ''This works
and has through all remembered time.''
:11:20
The script l'm starting,
it's about flowers.
:11:24
Nobody's ever done a movie
about flowers before.
:11:26
-So there are no guidelines.
-What about Flowers for Algernon?
:11:30
Well, that's not about flowers.
And it's not a movie.
:11:33
l'm sorry. l never saw it.
:11:35
How--? Okay, keep going.
:11:36
Look, my point is
that those teachers are dangerous...
:11:39
...if your goal is to try
to do something new.
:11:41
A writer should always have that goal.
Writing is a journey into the unknown.
:11:45
lt's not building, you know,
one of your model airplanes.
:11:52
McKee is a former Fulbright Scholar,
Charles.
:11:55
Are you a former Fulbright Scholar?