I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.
Interpretation
The quote highlights how genre allows for deeper exploration of personal fears through creative storytelling.
Matt Reeves emphasizes that genres, whether horror or fantasy, provide a unique platform for filmmakers to delve into their own fears and emotions. By embedding personal themes within entertaining narratives, filmmakers can create thought-provoking art that engages audiences beyond mere entertainment.
In practice
In a film class, when discussing how horror movies reflect societal fears.
What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle, someone, somewhere, will be able to find it and read it. That is all I need, as a poet, and that is the beauty, the luxury of my position. My lyric is mine and remains mine. Nobody can ruin it.
Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history.
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