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I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
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I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying he wanted me to make up dialogue.
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In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.
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The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.
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Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
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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 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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Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.
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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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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.
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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 was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.
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When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.
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The essence of cinema is editing.
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Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal.
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Art depends on luck and talent.
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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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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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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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The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.
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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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