Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and wrongdoing fail.
Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.
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