“In the book world, it is forbidden and uncouth to publish one’s own work,” observes Brian Robert Hischier in a commentary at The Antipodes. “A work without the guidance of an editor is like a child born of its own devices. It is possible, but unpleasant. Why, then, is the same practice encouraged and embraced in filmmaking, where it is a joyous (and common) act of creativity for a filmmaker to produce his own films? Why do we allow a screenwriter to produce, direct and edit his own film, then praise him as an auteur when the film proves interesting (as it occasionally does)? This seem to be an absurd double standard in the Reception of Art.”