Francis Ford Coppola: “Who said art has to cost money?”
We have to be very clever about those things. You have to remember that it’s only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money. Artists never got money. Artists had a patron, either the leader of the state or the duke of Weimar or somewhere, or the church, the pope. Or they had another job. I have another job. I make films. No one tells me what to do. But I make the money in the wine industry. You work another job and get up at five in the morning and write your script.
… But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?
-Francis Ford Coppola
Not saying that I agree with him, but when the Godfather (or the man behind him) speaks, you listen. Of course the issue Mr. Coppola speaks of seems to actually be due to the introduction of capitalism, the maturation of the entertainment industry and the invention of IP protection. All of which I don’t envision us moving away from.
