In this series of ten unique lectures, delivered over the course of ten years, from 2001 to 2011, to students of the Advanced Courses for Screenwriters and Directors, Italian screenwriter, poet, and author Tonino Guerra, who worked with Fellini, Antonioni, Tarkovsky, and other directors, discusses the interaction between director and screenwriter, how a filmmaker should look and see, how to search for and find stories and images, how to use a chance encounter or glance in a film, and, most importantly, how plots are born.