Interview
What is your full name? My full name is [Your Name]. For the family and for me, it has meaningful significance deeply rooted in my family history, and I am proud to carry on even more in my life.
May I see your ID? Of course, here it is. Do have a look.
Where are you from? I’m originally from [Your City/Country]. It is an incredibly diverse, rich place and being raised there has definitely influence my beliefs, perspectives and sense of self.
Do you work or study? At this moment, I am learning about [Your Field] in university. It is a challenging but very rewarding programme, and I am becoming ever more excited about the theory and practice behind it.
Do you often read books? When? Yes, reading is one of my most regular and dear habits. I generally read for about an hour before bed — something that I find both mentally stimulating, and actually helps with the transition from day — to my mind getting into a more gentle flow acceptable for sleep. I always read on my commutes and whenever I find myself waiting — I keep a book on hand for those random moments that would otherwise be spent aimlessly scrolling through screens.
Have you read more books in the long run? Considerably, yes. During my earlier schooling years, my reading was motivated more by the necessity of exams — it was assigned literature in school that I dutifully read (though perhaps not with joyous intentionality). My reading devolved hugely into self-directed exploration — of true interest across multiple genres and disciplines, rather than tailored syllabuses — as I progressed through university. I also now read with much more slowness and care than before, as I discovered: true understanding and retention— the stuff that lasts— are only produced by a higher quality of engagement than fast, Panicked-Reading generates.
Today Im discussing the dilemma of adapting a book into film! Yes, multiple times — and repeatedly that’s taught me just how different the two forms are in what they can accomplish. The books that I found most interesting from this perspective were those where the film version went for brash interpretive leaps rather than literal fidelity — sometimes resulting in something seeming to be a true partner to the original, other times an accomplished thing which felt like an entirely separate piece of art, only sharing certain superficial narrative pieces with the source.
Do you like reading books or watching movies? My strong preference that can be more or less conscientiously reserved for reading does exist and was alright settled while I am equally fond of both and do not think you can really compare them in their goal and strengths– Books provide a particular depth of character interiority, control of narrative pace and that unique quality in the more active form of imaginative engagement — building bricks from the language up, not presented on the projector screen as a complete image. But the film beats prose can do — the immediacy of audiovisual sensation, the performative quality of human emotion, and just plain social experience are pleasures that I cannot help but respect on their own grounds. I am an enthusiastic consumer of film, but I treat books as my main source of creative and intellectual fuel.