Quotes that stood out to me (turns out there are quite a bit):

0:45 "Are you writing what you like to write, or are you writing what you like to watch?"

7:02 "Is it something that anyone can watch and be like, 'I don't know what I would do in that situation. I
wanna see how this person's gonna do it'?"

7:22 "What character can be tested the most in that situation?"

7:48 "I like to create the characters, put 'em in a scenario and see where they go."

8:11 "If you just met this person for five minutes at the grocery store...what would your first couple
takeaways be?"

8:40 "What does the character want, why now, and what happens if they don't get it?"

10:07 "I think there should always be some element of sacrifice. And remember that the word 'sacrifice'
means 'to make sacred'."

11:52 "How to get that character to believe in the truth that's already beating in their heart"

13:18 "Why is this personal for the main character?"

14:16 "That pain needs to happen to this character. How do you [make] a trauma in the past affect the
present?"

16:00 "What the character wants to truly believe about himself, but nothing in the world is saying this is
such"

16:18 "If me and this character went out to get a drink at a bar or something, what would we talk
about? How would the conversation flow?...I always try to think of the broader world a character
inhabits outside of just the script."

17:09 "How vulnerable you were, how stupid you were, how arrogant you were, which means how
human you were at that time. Can you do that?"

17:25 "How does your protagonist experience temptation?"

18:27 "What is that personal problem inside that is hurting the hero in such a fundamental way that it's
ruined their life?"

20:27 "Why your villain is right and why your hero is wrong"

21:17 "Where there's dialog, there's subtext, and where there's action, there's intention."

23:04 "What's something that surprises you about this world?"

23:12 "Can you take your main character out of the story world and have your story world still be
interesting?"

24:24 "Can I make a story world log line out of it that's independently interesting? And by adding in
irony and a high concept to the world itself, now you have some commerciality, and some interest, and
something that by itself can grab people's attention."
25:24 "What does this scene cause to happen, and how is it the effect of what happened before it?"

28:02 "How is it that something I'm seeing, from people I don't know, is making me cry?"

30:29 "Strangers, who don't know what you're going for, when they read your script, do they experience
the story you experienced? Do they experience the characters you experienced?"

33:53 "I want you to become them by falling into darkness backward."