artistic license
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“We didn’t take much artistic license, but the challenge with doing 2 hours and 45 minutes is: Can I push the envelope of the experience of the film?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
But then we had artistic license to create looks in the style of what the queen wore at the time.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
Christopher Nolan’s movie mixes diligent research with artistic license.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2023
I mean, you could do a biopic about somebody who lived a hundred years ago, but they're not around, so I'm sure you have a lot of artistic license to do whatever you want.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2023
Poetic and artistic license allows a few slight exaggerations.
From The Madcap of the School by Balliol Salmon
