People criticize artists for failing to represent their particular lived experiences. I've never seen a movie that encapsulates my own, so I co-wrote a screenplay. Maybe it'll be made, maybe not. I'm not complaining about anyone else. How many of Manuel's critics have even tried?
*Miranda's
Furthermore, it’s not the representation of personal experiences or identity alone that amounts to art or insight. Those are simply starting points, raw materials to be drawn from and transformed through empathy and imagination into something striving for the universal.
Final point: when I say I never saw a movie that represented my own lived experiences, I’m certainly not only referring to those rooted in identity.
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