[crabapple]

A theme of personal self-limitation? You're talking to two people you respect as artists about a film they made (and the underlying meaning of its story). There is an unidentified "other person" in the dream that keeps analyzing the underlying meanings of your questions and you have to "shut him up."

So maybe the "other person" was an aspect of you, and the way you silenced the other person repeatedly is your dream making a comment/joke about seeking greatness in other people instead of within yourself. The character was male to make it harder to figure out that it was actually you. Or, the character was male because he represented an aspect of you that you are repressing. Seems like one of those self-analysis dreams.

This is just an offhand analysis on my part, not to be taken too seriously.