You just can't make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it's almost done.
My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination.
The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it.
By attracting attention to yourself, you distract people from the movie. Ideally, you like a movie to speak for itself. You don't describe a song before you sing it or tell about a painting before you show it. You don't reveal the recipe before you serve the dish. You taste it.
Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.
The best mentors present their opinions simply as data and not as direction.
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
With caviar, you place a blob of it on sour cream or on a lettuce leaf and everyone is happy. I'm trying to get away from that.
