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May 06, 2009

Of Monologues and Dialogues: Does Any Artist Really Work in a Vacuum?


It's not the job of a filmmaker to make a film that speaks to a particular audience -- an artist should always be true to his own vision -- but the best-made films nonetheless do achieve this connection because they speak, on some level, to a truth the audience connects with. If a filmmaker is making films that only resonate for him, what on earth is the point -- at least, to anyone but him? Film is a shared experience of the filmmaker's vision and the audience receiving and responding to it and that, too, is a part of its collaborative nature.

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Posted by kvoynar at May 6, 2009 05:44 PM

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