"Stanislavsky says there are two kinds of plays. There are plays that you leave, and you say to yourself, "By God, I just, I never, gosh, I want to, now I understand! What a masterpiece! Let's get a cup of coffee;' and by the time you get home, you can't remember the name of the play, you can't remember what the play was about. And there are plays-and books and songs and poems and dances that are perhaps upsetting or intricate or unusual, that you leave unsure, but which you think about perhaps the next day, and perhaps for a week, and perhaps for the rest of your life. Because they aren't clean, they aren't neat, but there's something in them that comes from the heart, and, so, goes to the heart."
I have had experiences with media on both ends of the spectrum, but its always when I'm up at night thinking about a film or book that I saw two months ago and still working it out, still trying to memorize the methods and storytelling processes, just enjoying it for what it is - its those moments that make me realize that this is what I want to be a part of. I want to give others these same feelings, the same joys, sorrows, pains, angers and surprises. I want to create an experience, not a time-filler. And often time the experiences aren't clean or neat or fit into a box of what society, even what the modern church (who for the most part has divorced itself from art), says is proper for the medium. Especially the church, now that I think about it, since for them art needs to have a clear cut 'Jesus is the only way' message in order to be valuable or even 'good', or at least put their name on it (thank goodness this isn't the beliefs of my home church but I know most of the 'christian' publishers and studios seems to operate like this).
When you try to force someone to believe something you will turn them off from it and the 'art' becomes nothing more than a package for something, a disposable and sometimes deceiving wrapping.
Just let the art be art.
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