I love all of the writer interviews you run, Scott. Thank you for this one. > There was always this sense of weight dropping off me when they took the ticket and I walked into a moviehouse. It was very palpable, very important. I loved the movies. My parents talk about the movies of their childhood this way...and I can't think of a recent movie that gave me the same sort of feeling. (The last one might have been Life is Beautiful.) But that kind of escapism and sensation of being transported outside oneself sounds like a guiding light to aim for as writers: can we give the audience a magical experience? Can we lift the weight of their everyday life with this story? > Then he came up with some idea of a scene with no dialogue, where Broderick Crawford is eating a piece of chicken as people are extolling him—cutting to him and his indifferent reaction—so that we know that he’s not buying any of it. Things like that—visual detail, not dialogue—I learned that from Rossen. A question for everyone here, or those of us who haven't (yet) got to work with the likes of Bob Rossen: How do you learn visual storytelling? (And Scott: do you address it in any of your courses?) How do writers go about cultivating a visual writing sensibility?