Matt Zoller Seitz: On Reading Depression, Actors & Us
Dallas native Matt Zoller Seitz writes with compassion about Owen Wilson on his House Next Door blog.
"Wilson might have been sad as hell about any number of things, but comic actors aren't inherently more depressive than dramatic actors, novelists, police officers, schoolteachers or bus drivers. People are people, and each one is unique..."
To those who'll draw obvious, reductive parallels between a scene in THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS and Wilson's presumed state of mind, Seitz says: don't. "All that scene tells me is that Wilson is a funny, honest, writer who has had dark thoughts and isn't afraid to write them down."
"Art is always informed by life, but one doesn't automatically predict the other."