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The essence of cinema is editing.

Francis Ford Coppola

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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
Actor
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Executive Producer
Film Director
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Detroit
Michigan
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Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.
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It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
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I'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.
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I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying he wanted me to make up dialogue.
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A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.
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My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph.
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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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Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.
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'Godfather' was very classical, the way it was shot, the style, the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.
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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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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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My film isn't about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. It's what it was really like. It was crazy. And the way we made it was very much like the way the Americans were in Vietnam. We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment and little by little we went insane.
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If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.
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I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
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So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.
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Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.
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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 wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.
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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 always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.
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