Considering the current state of Western culture, where have we come from? How did we get here? And where should we go?

Let's get objective - thinking of film as an essay - there are three key components… the thematic argument, the debate and the execution.

The eternal interplay between life creating art, which in turn contributes to life… I examine of impact of the artist on the audience, as well as the impact on themselves.

As a filmmaker, what duty do you have to make a complex story concise and digestible for a mass audience? Well it depends… are you making the film for your audience or for yourself?

If you could live in any time period? What time period and why?

Roger Ebert, once said “empathy is the most essential quality of civilization… and movies are like a machine that generates empathy."

Fincher shows how the traditional depictions of masculinity are in crisis as the evolved ‘computer nerd’ can recode their status…