When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.
When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.
I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.
You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.
In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and it's up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.
All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.
As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.