In this unique ten-part lecture series delivered to students of the High Courses for Screenwriters and Directors over ten years (2001-2011), Italian screenwriter, poet, and author Tonino Guerra, who worked with Fellini, Antonioni, Tarkovsky, and other film directors, discusses the interaction between a film director and a screenwriter, how a filmmaker should look and see, how to seek and find stories and imageries, how to utilize a chance encounter or a glance in a film, and, most importantly – how plots are born.