There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.
Economics and ethics are not mutually exclusive.
Having a secure border is a sovereign right and mutually beneficial.
At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.
You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive.
The most powerful sign is that your work no longer enchants you - it's not deep, delightful, and mutually satisfying. When this happens, it may be time to look for new challenges.
Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.
Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.
Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the "give" part.
Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.
Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.
I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus [. . . ] The reconciliation of the methods which you are planning to make, serves to clarify them mutually, and what they have in common contains very often their true metaphysics; this is why that metaphysics is almost the last thing that one discovers. The spirit arrives at the results as if by instinct; it is only on reflecting upon the route that it and others have followed that it succeeds in generalising the methods and in discovering its metaphysics.
Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest.
The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.
If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.
More often than not "fair" and "balanced" may be mutually exclusive
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.
