tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16210820.post846082247310809724..comments2023-04-11T05:47:14.525-04:00Comments on The House Cat: Francis Ford Coppola on Stealing MaterialUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16210820.post-34712507953680066502011-07-15T12:00:19.578-04:002011-07-15T12:00:19.578-04:00Thank you for posting this. I'm an independen...Thank you for posting this. I'm an independent filmmaker in New York City, and my first film, which is fairly violent, has garnered strong positive comparisons to the early work of Martin Scorsese. Scorsese's top biographer in fact has called me "the next Scorsese". The comment actually paralyzed me because I've always been fanatical about retaining absolute creative originality. It hurt to be compared to Marty because it makes me think nothing my generation does will ever be original, nor can it be, because we live in a DVD age and have been exposed to so much visual information. <br /><br />To read this article makes me feel better about my filmmaking. Maybe the key is to not concern myself with how original or not my work looks to people. And just to keep shooting.<br /><br />This is the article I needed to read today. Thanks to Francis Ford Coppola. And thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com