We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
We've all been influenced by American naturalism, and to ignore that entirely would be impossible for me as someone who works primarily in film.
The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental.
We're not inherently anything but human.
I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.
I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
We have a love affair with the idea of the 'natural,' even though we, as a species, are about as unnatural as you can imagine.
Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.