Foreword / Martin Scorsese
pt. 1. Dramatic construction
The pre-verbal language of cinema
A technique for having ideas
Slogans for the screenwriter's wall
Exercises for the student of dramatic construction
When not to write a shooting script
Plausibility and willing suspension of disbelief
Density and subplots in Sweet smell of success
The director and the actor
The invisible imaginary ubiquitous winged witness