Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytical thought. All stories faithfully mirror their maker, exposing their humanity or lack of it.
True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure. The greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character’s essential nature.
Pressure is essential - choices made when nothing is at stake mean little.
Choice under pressure strips away the mask of characterisation and gives insight into true character. The revelation of true character in contrast or contradiction to characterisation is fundamental to all fine storytelling.
Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. Film, therefore, is temporal art.
The source of all art is the human psyche’s primal, prelinguistic need for the resolution of stress and discord through beauty and harmony, for the use of creativity to revive a life deadened by routine, for a link to reality through our instructive sensory feel for the truth.
Therefore all artists have only one responsibility : to tell the truth.
Although an artist may, in their private life, lie to others, even to themselves, when they create they tell the truth. In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
