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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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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.
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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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Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.
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Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.
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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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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 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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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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The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.
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I'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.
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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 think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
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I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.
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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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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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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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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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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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