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I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
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Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.
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They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.
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I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.
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The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.
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Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.
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I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
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Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
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Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.
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I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into my work, I get lost sometimes in bizarre things - it's my Italian heritage.
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I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.
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Art depends on luck and talent.
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If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.
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Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.
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I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
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I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.
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I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.
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I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.
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There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.
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