I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I suppose I do have an interest in stories that show complexity.
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.
The telling of stories creates the real world.
Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.