"Not every day, maybe, but essentially I like the challenge of discovering the truth of the behavior and the inner lives of all these characters".
Indeed without the tutelage and wonder of Shakespeare what would we know about the truth of human behavior?
Brecht's theater was a reaction against naturalism, but his plays have no force if they do not bring us into a confrontation with the brute truths of human behavior.
That is certainly true, but it is also the case that classic works of theater can sometimes speak to us most vividly, and urgently, when the eternal truths of human behavior they illuminate can, say, be seen glaring at us from television screens on a nightly basis.
"I knew the credibility of the paper hinged on us getting to the truth of Knight's behavior," he said.
You choose to be faithful, you choose to do what you believe you should do, sometimes against all your deepest impulses, and you hope that the truth of your actual behavior will become clear to you down the road.
The natural force of truth in human behavior is when we see everyone's primary intention as good, as he or she sees it.
As it happened, the benefits as evidence tended to accrue to the police — which is fine, of course, provided that they are serving the larger goal of establishing the truth and a standard of behavior.
Formal semantics for a logic provides a definition of validity by characterizing the truth behavior of the sentences of the system.
But in the end, their argument is elemental: Wouldn't the nation benefit from knowing the truth about the behavior of banks and bankers?
The result (as the documentary's splendid selection of clips shows) was work of almost unbearable emotional extremes — in what Falk calls "ambiguity," "complexity of behavior," and "truth," and which he ascribes to Cassavetes himself: "He housed within himself every opposite, and he housed it in its extreme form".
