Jeffrey York

Does any story ever just conclude these days?

It’s not CGI. We buy it because seeing is believing.

The debate won’t focus on what we allow A.I. to do, but rather, how much we allow it to do.

If Martin Scorsese doesn’t act bigger than the gods, no one should.

To paraphrase Logan Roy, we are not serious people.

... one of the most worrisome fears for writers is that they could end up penning something that damages ‘the brand.’

Such brevity is all but demanded in scripts today, all the better to help readers breeze through the script, right?

These days, anyone with a cell phone and a TikTok account can be a celebrity, so maybe our adoration of movie stars, recording artists, and athletes are going to suffer when fame seems so accessible.

Even if you’ve got a winner, endorsed with great notes from a pro, or some wins in a contest or two, what else can you do to give your work traction?

The worst of mankind is more sellable to the American public than the best, it would seem, so anyone attempting to tell a tale of romance is up against a burgeoning trend of nastiness.

Nothing is certain, so why not take the risk and be as bold or unusual or as personal as we want to be in whatever we are creating?

Have we gotten to the point where we need our hands held so continually?

An ensemble movie and its script must recognize why such an ensemble is needed and what’s at stake in such a story.

We can’t recognize escapism any more when hard truths are staring back at us every morning in the mirror.

At his age, he had plenty of wisdom to draw upon and apply to the characters he was auditioning to play.