The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person yes but an intense condensation of his experience not simply a realistic series of episodes.
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all which is hardly ever I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.