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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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I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
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I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
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I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.
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I still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.
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I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.
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I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'
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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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People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.
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I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.
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Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.
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Art depends on luck and talent.
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The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
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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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It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.
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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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A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.
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I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!
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Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.
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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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