"Creative Bumming"

I'm learning so much from my production workshop and we've had only 3 meetings so far! One of the many things I've learned is to do "creative reading" and "creative watching". That's how your imagination and ideas expand, of course. I've been doing that even before the workshop but now, I guess I pay more attention to it. So recently I've mostly been doing that: watching good movies and reading good books. (I'm afraid I don't have good taste when it comes to music. lol). I should call it "creative/productive bumming". I'm also more open to local films now. I was always biased about local films, thinking they're too shallow, superficial, redundant, and 1,000,000% mainstream. Not to mention how actor-based these films are. I guess commercialized movies which are the most visible ones are like that, but when you look closer or dig deeper, you actually find few but great movies.