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I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to work, which for now is to think and read and write, so it's all a dream come true.

Francis Ford Coppola

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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
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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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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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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 still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.
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Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.
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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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It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.
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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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When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.
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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 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 thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.
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I'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.
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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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Art depends on luck and talent.
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Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.
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