In today’s Globe and Mail there was a review article of Francis Ford Coppola, winner of 5 Oscars and Director of classic movies such as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now.
In referred to Copploa’s new movie “Tetro” Michael Posner says the following…
(Coppola is) also interested in the gap that separates artistic and intellectual achievement from human compassion. “I’ve learned that in my life,” he says. “Great genius does not always translate into generosity and bigness of spirit. Picaso, for example. Mean to his kids.” Other examples abound, from Jean-Jaques Rousseau to Bertolt Brecht, from Richard Wagner to Ernest Hemmingway – all, at the human level, monsters of a kind. Culture, he says, cannot save you.
Love this. Since I’m waxing ad nauseum on every post here, I’ll spare you on this one.