Read this article from Movie City News.
“Is the best art created when the artist isolates himself as much as possible from outside influences? Or is art, by its nature, collaborative?
Art isn’t made in a vacuum, and egos of artists aside, their visions are, at the very least, shaped and influenced by every experience they’ve had in their lives, by every person they’ve ever met, and by some things they may not even consciously remember. Art reflects the world surrounding its creator, refracted through the unique lens of the artist’s eye.
Even if you’d been born and grew up completely alone on an island with no other living creatures to interact with, and you somehow managed to survive that and evolve the idea of art without any outside influence driving that, how could you possibly make anything that wasn’t so navel-gazing as to be utterly irrelevant to anyone outside yourself? God knows, even when artists collaborate, there’s way too much navel-gazing in independent film.”
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