Your job as the writer is to make it as easy for the reader as possible. Now this doesn’t mean that you write to a lowest common denominator or dumb down your script in any way. Easy reading is damn hard writing. It seems easy, however, because there aren’t any mistakes: the writing is clear and concise, with engaging creativity. But most importantly – and this may be the highest accomplishment to any screenwriter – it’s easy because it’s fast: a literal page-turner. There are many ways to get a reader to flip the pages fast and furious, and the most important…

Citizen Kane (1941) - Charles Foster Kane's speech to executives on the Inquirer’s success. Kane (Orson Welles): "Six years ago, I looked at a picture of the world's greatest newspaper men. I felt like a kid in front of a candy store. Well, tonight, six years later, I got my candy -- all of it. Welcome, gentlemen, to the Inquirer! Make up an extra copy of that picture and send it to the Chronicle, will you please? It will make you all happy to learn that our circulation this morning was the greatest in New York, 684,000."