if you disguise exposition with ‘emotional overlay’, it’s…

“If someone offered us £10 million, we’d all spend it differently.”

— John Yorke

“Exposition, after all, is telling and drama is showing.”

— John Yorke

“The conflict between how we wish to be perceived and what we really feel is at the root of all character.”

— John Yorke

“People construct a public face in order to deal with the conflicts that rage inside them.”

— John Yorke

“Great characters are consciously or subconsciously at war with themselves.”

— John Yorke

“A character’s want is a superficial conscious desire for the thing they think they need in order to present themselves to the world, a”

— John Yorke

“Silence of the Lambs screenwriter Ted Tally put the art of writing dialogue succinctly: ‘What’s important is not the emotion they’re playing but the…

— John Yorke

“A character’s façade, then, is an outer manifestation of an inner conflict.”

— John Yorke

“All good exposition is disguised by making it dramatic – by injecting conflict.”

— John Yorke

“The greater the conflict, the less visible the exposition.”

— John Yorke