C H A P T E R 1
THE WORLD OF THE FILM
DIRECTOR
CINEMA ART AND YOU
Cinema is the great art form of our time. It provides popular entertainment and is the preeminent forum for ideas and self-expression. Occupying the place of the theater in Elizabethan times, or the novel in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the cinema is where dreams of every shape and meaning take hold of the contempo-rary mind. The cinema leaps national and cultural barriers as no medium has ever done before, and the best films excite hearts and minds as only good art can. We each have particular stories to tell, and I shall show you that you do too.
No limit exists to the number of films the world can consume, so if you can direct outstanding screen work, you can make ...
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