NEIL YOUNG: “YOU HAVE TO BREAK OUT OF IT”
Mr. Young, do you see yourself as a provocateur?
My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.
Do you think music can still change how people think these days?
I think that it can cause reflection and discussion, which is all you can do.
What about in the past?
I try not to look back. I’m looking forward. I’m worried more about what I’m going to do next week than I am what I did last week. There are too many things to do. Looking back is for everybody else.
Well, let me have a look back. I’ve read that you refused to be filmed at Woodstock. Was that really true?
I believe it was…
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MARTIN SCORSESE: “I’M NOT A COOL AND QUIET PERSON”
Mr. Scorsese, are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future of cinema?
It’s a very exciting time because it’s all new, everything is off the board. It’s no longer the cinema of the 20th century. I guess we’ll call it cinema, but films will be made for these small screens.
Is that a good thing or bad thing?
That doesn’t mean that’s bad, but they shouldn’t see Lawrence of Arabia on those screens, that’s all. I think it’s a matter of putting things in perspective and place. But I feel we must always, always expose the younger generation to the films of the past, that’s the best possible circumstance. Otherwise culture, everything will be forgotten. We’ll only be dealing with animated films and, you know, giant communal experiences that are surface films – you look at them once and – bang! – it’s gone.
It’s a very exciting time because it’s all new, everything is off the board. It’s no longer the cinema of the 20th century. I guess we’ll call it cinema, but films will be made for these small screens.
Is that a good thing or bad thing?
That doesn’t mean that’s bad, but they shouldn’t see Lawrence of Arabia on those screens, that’s all. I think it’s a matter of putting things in perspective and place. But I feel we must always, always expose the younger generation to the films of the past, that’s the best possible circumstance. Otherwise culture, everything will be forgotten. We’ll only be dealing with animated films and, you know, giant communal experiences that are surface films – you look at them once and – bang! – it’s gone.
That would be horrible.
We would lose the beauty of seeing a film at the age of 10 and then seeing it at the age of 25 and it changes and then at the age of 40 and it changes even more and then at the age of 60 it all comes together and you realize, “Wow! This is amazing, this picture got better!” Where’s that going to be for the children of the future? Why wipe out the moving image as an art form that means something in this society…
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A new deadly strain of “bird flu” – coded H7N9 – has broken out in the Shanghai area of China.
Is it more deadly than H5N1? H1N1? H7N7? Or H2N2 even?
We weren’t sure. So we took a look at the data and… well, you can guess the rest.
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