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I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
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When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.
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I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.
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When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.
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I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.
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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. I didn't make that money necessarily from the film business, but I eventually made a lot of money and that's what I do. Of course, I consider myself unbelievably fortunate, and I'm pretty content with my life.
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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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The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.
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A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.
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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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You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.
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You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.
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The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.
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In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.
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We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.
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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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'Godfather' was very classical, the way it was shot, the style, the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.
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I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of camaraderie.
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You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.
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Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
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Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives.
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