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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.

Francis Ford Coppola

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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
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My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph.
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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 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 like simplicity I don't need luxury.
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Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
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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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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 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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Today's winemakers still worry about quality.
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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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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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When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.
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The essence of cinema is editing.
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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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Art depends on luck and talent.
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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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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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