It's too horrible for any of us to acknowledge. Yet we will all talk about how someone behaved toward us. Somebody must be being cruel. To avoid the qualities of a television movie, a kind of distance is required. It's all in how you see things, yes.
Tone has so much to do with it.
Obviously, many people are cruel in their movies and are cruel to their characters, but the perspective of the filmmaker has a lot to do with it. People have accused me of misanthropy, and I don't think that's accurate. To expose and to embrace people in spite of their flaws is in fact quite the opposite of misanthropy. It's about understanding, it's not about punishment. Newcity Chicago .