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As Wasson writes, Coppola’s career has been “a colossal, lifelong project of experimental self-creation few filmmakers can afford — emotionally, financially — and none but he has undertaken.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2023

For Lizzy, making art is an act of self-creation, but it is also and always an act of communion, a way of being in the world and with other people.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2023

We are very into the idea of self-creation.

From Salon • May 9, 2022

And we often confuse the difficult search for real freedom with the dangerous quest for unfettered self-creation, unburdened by history or consequences.

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2020

To say that "self-creation is potential existence passing into actual existence by some inherent necessity," is only to remove self-existence one step farther back, as he himself shows.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.