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

The difference between the two hemispheres may be said to consist in an artless liberty on the one hand, and artistic license on the other.

From The Soul of the Far East by Lowell, Percival