Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey
Each region, department, or state operates as a small-scale movie studio,
developing scripts, putting artists to work, and producing feature films and television
shows. For America, I like to imagine a version of a decentralized Hollywood in
which every state in the U n i o n functions like a movie studio, evaluating the stories
of its citizens and advancing money to produce regional films that represent and
enhance the culture of the locality while supporting the local artists.
HEROPHOBIC C U L T U R E S
Here and there in my travels I learned that some cultures are not entirely comfortable
with the term "hero" to begin with. Australia and Germany are two cultures that
seem slightly "herophobic."
T h e Australians distrust appeals to heroic virtue because such concepts have
been used to lure generations of young Australian males into fighting Britain's bat
tles. Australians have their heroes, of course, but they tend to be unassuming and
annaabi.ee 
