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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.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
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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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I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.
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The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
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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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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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We had access to too much equipment, too much money, and little by little we went insane.
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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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'Godfather' was very classical, the way it was shot, the style, the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.
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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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The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.
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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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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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You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.
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The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.
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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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You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.
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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'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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The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.
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