Videos: Tahmoh und Joss
Hier mal Tahmoh, wie immer süß und etwas ahnungslos, und dort dann Joss, mir der Frage nach Natur vs. Kultur:
Are you coming down on the side of nurture in the whole nature/nurture debate? Are we just shaped by our conditioning? Are our bodies just hardware that you can run any software on?
First of all, thank you. No-one's ever asked that question. I mean it. And second of all, nature versus nurture is something I've spent a lot of my life thinking about. And I've always been a nurture guy. I've always felt, "You're shaped by your environment, and the terrible, terrible things that your perfectly reasonable parents do to you." And then I had children, and they came out very much themselves. There are definitely things I can do to mess them up, and I'm doing my best, but they are who they are.
And I think Dollhouse... I will never answer your question, by the way. Dollhouse is the question. I've said before: Movies are an answer, TV shows are a question. Because if you give a definite answer, what the hell is your next episode about? My feeling is, there's a lot of both. Nuture is the key, but nature is interesting. And there is something innate within us, that can overcome what we've been saddled with. My wife is an amazing example of somebody who should not be as cool as she is, but could not help herself. So I've definitely learned that there are two sides to it, and that's what I want to explore with Dollhouse.
It's about something who — there is no nature. They've wiped out her personality. So she has to create her own. But she has the will to do that. They have not gotten rid of that. That's the key to the whole show. It explains what I'm about, it explains Eliza [Dushku], it is Echo defining herself with no parameters. With no nurture, and no real nature, to fall back on. Who am I? So I'll be answering your question, with any luck, for the next seven years.
Are you coming down on the side of nurture in the whole nature/nurture debate? Are we just shaped by our conditioning? Are our bodies just hardware that you can run any software on?
First of all, thank you. No-one's ever asked that question. I mean it. And second of all, nature versus nurture is something I've spent a lot of my life thinking about. And I've always been a nurture guy. I've always felt, "You're shaped by your environment, and the terrible, terrible things that your perfectly reasonable parents do to you." And then I had children, and they came out very much themselves. There are definitely things I can do to mess them up, and I'm doing my best, but they are who they are.
And I think Dollhouse... I will never answer your question, by the way. Dollhouse is the question. I've said before: Movies are an answer, TV shows are a question. Because if you give a definite answer, what the hell is your next episode about? My feeling is, there's a lot of both. Nuture is the key, but nature is interesting. And there is something innate within us, that can overcome what we've been saddled with. My wife is an amazing example of somebody who should not be as cool as she is, but could not help herself. So I've definitely learned that there are two sides to it, and that's what I want to explore with Dollhouse.
It's about something who — there is no nature. They've wiped out her personality. So she has to create her own. But she has the will to do that. They have not gotten rid of that. That's the key to the whole show. It explains what I'm about, it explains Eliza [Dushku], it is Echo defining herself with no parameters. With no nurture, and no real nature, to fall back on. Who am I? So I'll be answering your question, with any luck, for the next seven years.
wiesengrund - 1. August, 14:53
