I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.
I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.
I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.
The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.
Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.
I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and characterisation and that sort of thing.
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.