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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.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
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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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When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.
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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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So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.
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I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.
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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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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 probably have genius. But no talent.
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It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.
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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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Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.
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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 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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I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
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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 always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.
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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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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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We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.
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I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I've financed myself.
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