I've always been attracted to guys with big brains.
The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling. "
Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall out. It is trying to imagine, remember the story, read it, put it down, and then write sort of an outline without the book in front of you with some hope that what you like about it will be filtered and distilled out through your memory and then that will be similar to what other people like about it.
Let there be a wide breadth of possible ways to create.
As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.
Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.
If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.
On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific distinction, and it features conspicuously both in attacking behaviour, when the birds face each other and grip beaks, and also in courtship, when food is passed from the beak of the male to the beak of the female. Hence though the beak differences are primarily correlated with differences in food, secondarily they serve as specific recognition marks, and the birds have evolved behaviour patterns to this end.
I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
Never stop listening to your audience.