[…] “I feel that every story has to have an idea that transcends the action and the characters. We had a number of things for Draft Day, that this is a story about blank. This is a story about instinct versus logic, this is a story about character versus talent, this is a story about fathers and sons. This is the kind of thing that helps me and Scott [Rothman] think about, ‘Why are we writing this to begin with?’ We can both write funny, cute dialogue until we’re blue in the face and it’s not going to mean anything. Always, …read more […]