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It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
Francis Ford Coppola
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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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Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.
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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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I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'
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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 wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
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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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When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.
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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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I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.
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Art depends on luck and talent.
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If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.
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If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.
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The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.
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I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into my work, I get lost sometimes in bizarre things - it's my Italian heritage.
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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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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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