As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.
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I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling your punches.
This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to the truth of the story you're trying to tell.
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
I think we all have a responsibility to tell good stories.
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.
I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.
I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.
Whenever you're telling a story about true-life events and about real people, there's a tremendous responsibility-slash-burden to get it right.
As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.