Yes and no. There are a lot of "make it fit in the box" requirements when making a movie. The unions mandate a certain make up of the crew, and a certain size, the stage rental costs are a certain amount, there are various laws and corporate budgets to take into account; all that adds up to a certain number of shots you can do in a day, which adds up to a dollar amount, and ALL THOSE THINGS cascade down to enabling only certain creative things. The difference between a brilliant director and a ok one is not the beauty of their art, it's their ability to pull-off something incredible in the middle of all that machinery. In a way, it's WORKING that machinery in your favor.

So while, yes, the industry is set up to support a creative endeavor, that industry runs on a template that makes certain things possible and certain things very difficult. But brilliant producers and directors find ways around it.