So why? Why is Tarantino hailed as one of the greatest filmmakers of our generation (well I hail, I don’t know if you hail) when he’s admitted to stealing?

It’s because he’s taken everything he’s ever watched, everything he’s been inspired by and stitched them together to make something completely new, something that’s his, something that’s tarantinoesque (this is legit a word in the Oxford dictionary).

So let’s go back to what I said earlier – many people have done shit before you’ve done shit. 

A great many things have been done even before you or I ever came into existence. We are all part of the culture that has been created by those who have come before us.

When we produce a piece of work, it’s a culmination of everything we’ve experienced, what we’ve watched on tv, the music we listen to, the artwork we see on instagram, the people we watch on the street, whatever. 

A lot of my work (I should mention that I’m a video editor) is reminiscent of things that I’ve seen or heard or experienced. The most obvious of which, I guess, might be the montage below, inspired by the movie Sideways.