n all things, there's the thing, and then there's the thing beneath the thing.

What it’s about, and what it’s really about.

Take the movie Jaws.

Jaws is about a shark terrorizing a beach town, but it’s really about the universal fears that lurk beneath the calm: the dread of the unknown, the fragility of safety, and the lengths we go to face—or... See more

It felt really safe to me. The riskier choice was playing it safe.”