But as producers have frequently discovered, the vividness of the story usually comes from the way I use a character's viewpoint. Most of my fiction is described from the interior of a character. If I've done my job correctly, the reader will so identify with the character that the character's perspective becomes like a movie to the reader. It's something I don't think about it. The effect is something I automatically tend toward, although achieving the effect requires various techniques that I developed over the years and some that I learned from Hemingway, whose style was the subject of my Master's thesis.
Movies are by nature exterior to a character's thought processes and emotions.
The latter doesn't translate to film. But mental conflict is what most interests me, and what makes it hard for filmmakers to adapt what seems cinematic in my work. Plus, it is all too possible. Let me start by reversing the emphasis of the question. If I see something on the news, I automatically dismiss it as a possibility for fiction.