This is an ongoing list of things I don’t want to have in any of my films and other work. I’m sure I’ll look at this after a while as the perfect set of things I should be doing.

1. No scenes where the person doesn’t know how to tie a tie.
2. No extremely fit men.
3. No aliens (from other planets).
4. No weddings.
5. No men with dogs.
6. No cool bartenders.
7. No pistols.
8. No World Wars.
9. No villains that I wouldn’t want to be.
10. No dying words, unless they are meaningless.
11. No hackers.
12. No car chases. Chases involving all other modes of transportation are encouraged.
13. No talking animals.
14. No famous/public figures as characters.
15. No story that takes place before 1900, unless there are no humans in the film.
16. No sex scene montages.
17. No black and white cinematography.
18. No voice-over narration.
19. No math geniuses.
20. No expected nudity.
21. No time travel.
22. No superheros.
23. No dinosaurs.
24. No flashbacks.