I går läste jag igenom en intervju med Aaron Sorkin och fann följande mycket Hitchcockianska inställning som jag inte kan annat än instämma i:
SORKIN: When you say character development, I don’t know what you mean. I feel like you’re talking about, do I grow their hair longer?
ON WRITING: I guess in terms of how well you have to know them. For instance, when you do a movie or a play, do you have to now those guys inside out to be able to write about them?
SORKIN: There is no inside out. You have to remember that the properties of characters and the properties of people are two entirely different things. You and I both had experiences when we were six years old that are still somehow affecting us now. A character like Bartlet, or Josh, Toby or Sam in The West Wing was never six years old. They were born at the age that they were in the pilot. They were never six years old, unless I am telling a story that involves something that happened to them when they were six. Now they’re six years old. But people who talk about, ”I want to know what this character had for breakfast last week before I can play the scene,” I respect what they’re doing, I don’t understand it. The character didn’t have breakfast a week ago. Characters don’t have breakfast — people do.
(On Writing, februari 2003, vol. 18, WGA East.)