“At every single moment, every single person wants something. Often many things, often conflicting things.”
“Storytelling is inherently dangerous. If you consider a traumatic event in your life, consider it as you experienced it. Now think about how you told it to someone a year later. Now think about how you told it for the one hundredth time. It’s not the same thing. A few components enter into the change. One is perspective. Most people think perspective is a good thing to have in a story. You can figure out characters arcs, you can apply a moral, you can tell it from a distance with understanding and context. The problem is that this perspective is a misrepresentation of the incident; it’s a reconstruction with meaning and as such bears very little resemblance to the event.”
(Source: guru.bafta.org)
“Now this is me for a while.”
“Here’s the one thing I know about the thing you’re certain about; you’re wrong.”
“I think we try to be experts because we’re scared; we don’t want to feel foolish or worthless; we want power because power is a great disguise.”
(Source: guru.bafta.org)
“People make the assumption that everything I do is about me. But, then, I don’t really understand the notion that I should write about things that I don’t think about. Why would you ask that of a writer? How could you ask that of anyone?”
“I was frustrated with the results, but it occurred to me that there was no solution as long as my job was trying to imitate someone else’s voice. The obvious solution was to find a situation where I was doing me, not someone else. The major obstacle to this is your deeply seated belief that “you” is not interesting.”
(Source: Guardian)
