Francis Ford Coppola

Buzz Watch: Francis Ford Coppola Calls for a "Secretary of Youth"

Authored by Jay Baage on August 1, 2007 - 3:21am.

Francis Ford Coppola, one of the world's greatest filmmakers, is back with his first new film in 10 years, "Youth Without Youth" - a love story wrapped in a mystery, set in Europe before WWII. In the first interview he has given about his new film, Coppola also talks to the recently launched site Interviewing Hollywood about some of the issues that will be discussed in DMW's next conference The Millennials. Those issues involve - how do you communicate with today's youth? How should you approach programming and marketing to this unique generation - one fully embracing a pervasively digital world? Coppola says that he thinks there is a real need for a "Secretary of Youth" to look out for the interests of todays youth - in a broader sense then what the Secretary of Education does. I've embedded selected parts of the interview below.