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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 still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.
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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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I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.
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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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