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David Bordwell

“Someone might ask, if the dynamic of innovation consists of schema and revision, where does true originality come from? Is there no single work we can point to as the ultimate source of this or that new storrytelling strategy? I'm inclined to say there is no such source. Artists working in mass art forms find originality by revising schemas in circulation, or by revising ones that have fallen into disuse.”

David Bordwell, Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
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