"Across genres, for one reason or another, various filmmakers—sometimes even those considered the most visual of directors—have drawn on devices dating back 2,500 years to the days of Hellenic theater because there are limitations to showing; showing can't always get us inside a character, or inside a character's story."

"By the time I started getting hit with 'Show, don't tell' as a screenwriter, I had already had enough experience under my belt to know that, as an overriding cinematic aesthetic, it was more or less bullshit."

"I long ago began to bridle at the idea there were 'rules' to writing, and, over time, no rule came to aggravate me more than the seemingly carved-in-stone dictum: 'Show, Don't Tell.'"