: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?
:12:01
Say something. I dragged her here,
and now I'm not saying anything.
:12:04
Mak e her laugh.
Say something funny.
:12:07
l hate parties, Amelia.
Why did we come here?
:12:09
Because we're hip, young trendsetters
on the make, aren't we?
:12:12
More like old losers
sitting on the floor, maybe.
:12:15
Jesus, Charlie. Speak for yourself.
Okay....
:12:21
Charlie, we're gonna fix you up.
:12:23
We're gonna solve the whole Charlie
Kaufman mess for once and for all.
:12:27
-Okay.
-Okay, let me see.
:12:29
What do you need?
What, what, what?
:12:33
Well, l'm glad you took
the orchid script.
:12:36
l think it will be good for you
to get out of your head.
:12:39
l think it'll ground you to think about the
bigger picture, about nature and stuff.
:12:43
l still can't believe they gave me
that job.
:12:46
l mean, after that lunch.
l was sweating insanely.
:12:50
l was ranting. l was a mess.
:12:53
You were just nervous
because she was pretty.
:12:55
How do you know she was pretty?
:12:57
After eight months of knowing you,
l think l get what makes you sweat.