Re: Cap's bad old days :)
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sat, 27 Mar 1999 15:45:33 +1100
Jim wrote:
> That's the way it works with real genius anyhow. Salvador Dali did quite
> a few fairly imitative, tame paintings before he sold melting clocks.
> His realism was impeccable in his early works. James Joyce mastered the
> mainstream short story and wrote fairly traditional poetry (Pomes
> Pennyeach) before writing anything so weird as Ulysses.
>
> And he couldn't have published Finnegan's Wake before selling that other
> stuff, of course.
I'm going to have to reluctantly agree here, amazingly enough (: One of the
big questions in all the artistic industries I've been involved in is the
good ol' `to sell out or not to sell out?' And I have generally said that
basically, if doing something conventional or that you don't really want to
do will put you in a position where you can, then it's probably a
worthwhile trade-off. The Beatles had to do `Twist and Shout' before they
could get away with Sergeant Peppers. It's pretty much what I'm doing now
in the movie industry - if this film gets picked up I'll use the money to
fund the one I *really* want made. But God, it is soul destroying
sometimes.
It's just like my Dad's always said - you've got to bust the rules from the
inside.
Camille
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