So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life.
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In all of the movies and films you see, people are always in crisis because that's what we watch. We watch them deal with crisis and resolve it.
What amazes me most is that the media and I have fostered a close relationship.
I find films incredibly emotional. That's the power of the medium.
I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
The truth is, truly passionate media creators don't get into the media business to make huge gains from spectacular unicorn exits. When it happens, we certainly all cheer (and perhaps secretly hope it happens to us). But the fact is, we make media because we don't know what else to do with ourselves. It's how we're wired, so to speak.
With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
With every film, we form a small little world for a period of time. Everybody is close, and then one fine day everything is over. That can throw you off. So you have to learn to take things in your stride and not get too emotional about people or situations.
I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.
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