All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are
fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature
or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of
documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate. Not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.