Screenwriting 101 — Robert Towne

“The single most important question, I think, that one must ask one’s self about a character is what are they really afraid of? What are they really afraid of? And if you ask that question, it’s probably for me the single best way of getting into a character. That finally is where stories are told… with a character that’s real.”

Robert Towne (Chinatown, Shampoo, Mission Impossible)