![What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that way and live in that room. You're looking for the poetry in something, and I don't mean poetry in the fancy sense. Naturalism believes by just replicating a thing you give the truth, rather than earning the truth.](/assets/img/quote-photos/what-i-hate-about-kitchen-sink-dramas-is-this-idea-that-the-set-is-real-theref-638990579158012751.jpg)
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