9 The Day You Have No Limitations is the Day You Have No Choices

DOI: 10.4324/9781003286639-12

Throughout our time together during this book we have examined a variety of topics, approaches, and persons, and gleaned a foundation of understanding together of the notion that art - in our case as it relates to cinema (though not exclusively) - is a fluid and malleable form. It is influenced by many things because it is created by human beings who themselves are impacted by the world around them. As such, artists are tasked with the onus of not simply taking in their world but reflecting on it, synthesizing, and coming up with some way of understanding how life works that is greater than the sum of its parts. That may involve anything from experiencing ...

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