Francis Ford Coppola Instagram – This week marks the 40th anniversary of Rumble Fish.    I made Rumble Fish as an art film for kids. I wanted to demonstrate all the tools, choices, and wonders of cinema for young people. At the beginning I felt I had failed, as the film certainly didn’t overwhelm at the box-office, but later I learned it had done exactly what I had hoped: influence a young audience to want to make personal film and even to write novels.    For some mysterious reason, the film remained for almost a year in some theaters in South America and inspired many young artists to be novelists and filmmakers. This was attested to by the film “Locaciones: Buscando a Rusty James” a personal documentary about the influence of Rumble Fish, and was a milestone of Alberto Fuguet’s creative work, as a writer and filmmaker.    To me, there is no higher achievement than inspiring young people to create, just as I was inspired by so many before me.