Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

  • -- John Michael Higgins 约翰·迈克尔·希金斯

喜剧与保持和释放紧张有关;它非常的技术。它比戏剧更具技术性。

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Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.

故事,尽管我们很喜欢谈论它们,回顾过去,作为主题、世界观或意图的发散,当它们被写出来的时候,主要是作为技术对象发生的。至少对我来说是这样。它们是在修改过程中快速做出的数千个决定的结果。

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

艺术家的艺术必须是他自己的艺术。它是……总是一连串的小发明,一个人自己的小技术发现,与工具,材料和颜色的关系。

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

用散文,你可以融入更多的细节,发展场景,以一种特殊的方式维持张力。散文有它自己的速度。