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You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
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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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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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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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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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When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.
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Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.
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I still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.
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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've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.
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Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
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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.
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I like simplicity I don't need luxury.
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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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The essence of cinema is editing.
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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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There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.
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Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.
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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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I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.
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The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.
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