Relationships

"A relationship question is taking what we think is an internal question about a character and defining it in terms of the relationship. Will Moana grow closer to their village coming back or will they grow further apart? And it's just thinking about it in terms of relationships I think is quite a strong idea because it also means that you're posing the question and that's where you get the tension from. And I think it's important with these arcs that there's this, either it's a character question or it's a relationship question. And really what is a character question, but a relationship question with the character self."

"Their character arc is tied to them being able to achieve the goal. They want financial independence and by succeeding in financial independence, they will become independent people. And there's a theme running in there about what they're trying to do in this area of Chicago with the small businesses. And there's a bunch of really cool shit about crime and the relationship between crime and politics and business. But that is very clearly related and connected. And so they have to develop the skills, but the skills are related to them becoming more independent. Like this is tight."

"What makes this work story-wise and keeps compelled is that it has emotional events regardless. And I think Apollo 13 has emotional events between the characters. If anything, the only thing that changes is the relationship between characters. I don't think they change the world. They don't come back and be like, we found water on Mars. You know, it's kind of, and maybe that's true of all survival stories, or maybe they don't, they're just compelling because the external stakes are so high."

"Your quote unquote plot lines are just relationships. I think that is a really great way of, if you were to break it down, reading the script and seeing how those plot lines come in and out."

"You don't need it. You could just have her leaning on his shoulder, and that says everything about the emotional event. They have come closer, but I do think what it is that Bond has actually offered her that allows her to be closer to him is his complete absence of judgment of her."

"a lot of rom-coms in the 30s and 40s had a secondary or tertiary romance that helped carry that midpoint through. And a lot of romances now, a lot of rom-coms are starting to do the same thing because that's super helpful and it helps both break it up and also can parallel and can cause other events."

"For me, as I start writing the pilot, I'm figuring out a little bit about the world, about how the character, not just the characters, but how their relationships work."