How often does one person write, direct, produce, and star in a movie?
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Stephen Follows
2mo ago· 15 min readNews
After analysing 38 million film credits, I found 11,827 movies where one person held all four creative roles. I'm calling this 'Egocore' and it's more common and more nuanced than you might think.
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