As a screenwriter, you're constantly making decisions: from the foundations of character, story, and structure down to the littlest of details in each scene. Writing IS thinking, and when you're doing it right, you're making decisions while connecting each point of The Triangle: writer, material, and audience. Mistakes, however, are sure to be made; that is par for the course and why we rewrite. But there is no greater mistake than choosing the wrong material. But how do you know if you're off target? Simple: fight the urge to work with material out of your realm. Now…

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."