"It wasn't a negative, but rather saying that she's a dream, somebody who is collaborative and can talk intelligently about the story," Mr. Horowitz said.
To diffuse a situation like this - relax totally in your chair when they stand over you, in fact getting lower – not in submission, but rather saying you are totally unfazed by the confrontation.
Rivette is, rather, saying something simpler and yet more elusive: directors should think about what they're filming, should feel what they're filming with the full force of experience, and if they do so, their images will be appropriate to the enacted events.
It is rather saying that the mood, the horizon, in which we conduct ourselves tends to dispose us in particular ways.
It has been argued, however, that such a rule is not truly constitutive; it does not 'create' the possibility of performing actions of the relevant kind, i.e., saying that p. Rather, saying that p seems to be possible independently of (CR1), and (CR1) only provides one (among many possible) means of performing such an action (cf. Glüer & Pagin 1999, 218f).
We are rather saying that in order to save a number of lives, people have to find themselves in situations in which these lives are under a threat that they could avert, and this is a comparatively rare event, beyond their control.
