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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.

Francis Ford Coppola

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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
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When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.
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I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
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In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.
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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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Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
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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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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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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 was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.
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Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.
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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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