The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think the whole thing is: If it makes sense in your head, the audience will go along with it.
Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.
I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.
You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.
I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.
There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.
I find that on serialized television it's wiser to hit the ground and look forward, and take the cues from the writers and the events happening, otherwise you just tie yourself in knots.
I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.