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They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
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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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I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.
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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 was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.
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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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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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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 still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.
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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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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'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.
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Today's winemakers still worry about quality.
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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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I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
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