David Mamet

The main questions a director must answer are: "where do I put the camera?" and "what do I tell the actors?"; and a subsequent question, "what's the scene about?"

If you slip into narration, you are saying, "you'll never guess why what I just told you is important to the story."

psychoanalysis, which is a great storehouse of information about movies

The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud; The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim; Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung.