follow-up
I said last night in the talk back (and in my director's note) that we are all influenced by culture and history as much as personal psychology. I said we go around quoting Jerry Springer and our parents and friends and politicians and heros, sometimes without even realizing it. We incorporate these quotes and beliefs into our own beliefs, and forget that we first heard them from someone else. Sometimes I come up with a mind-boggling epiphany, only to realize that someone else told me that exact thing a week or a year ago without me understanding it.
What I didn't say last night is that I was quoting beliefs I incorporated from Chuck Mee, Ann Bogart, Michelle Milne, Doug Liechty-Caskey, Bruce Hostetler and others. In fact, Michelle pointed out later one belief I talked about that I had heard from her and she had heard from Ann and quite possibly Ann had heard from someone else.
My point exactly.
I also believe this process of exploring ideas and beliefs in life - keeping some and abandoning others - is much the same as the process we use to create a show. We edit based on what fits the world we know.