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Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
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Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.
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When you make a film it is like asking yourself a question. When it is finished, you know the answer. Ultimately with all of cinema, we are just trying to learn about ourselves. I have always used the opportunity to make a film to learn more about myself, which I am still doing.
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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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I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.
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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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I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.
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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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A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.
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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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Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.
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Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.
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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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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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I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.
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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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I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.
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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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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.
Francis Ford Coppola
I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time, consciousness and the dream-like basis of reality.
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