Every once in a while, you get a Jordan Peele—a “new” writer on the scene who changes the game.

But even though he exploded onto the film scene with Get Out, Jordan had written countless lines of dialogue and shot hundreds of Hollywood-esque sketches as half of, for my money, the greatest sketch duo to ever do it, Key & Peele.

But you’d be forgiven if you didn’t see Key & Peele as practice for making horror films.

Bruce Lee famously said: “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

Sketch comedy is practicing hundreds of film genres, two minutes at a time.

Casablanca, arguably the greatest script of all time, wasn’t written by someone who had been sitting on a brilliant idea for 20 years.

It was written by battle-hardened studio writers, in-house, factory-style workers responsible for pumping out 5 films a year.

Great work is seldom precious. It’s the result of continuously honing and refining the craft.

Better to write five films in a year than wait five to write one.