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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.

Francis Ford Coppola

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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
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The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.
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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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If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.
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Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.
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I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of camaraderie.
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The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.
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Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.
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We had access to too much equipment, too much money, and little by little we went insane.
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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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When you make a film it is like asking yourself a question. When it is finished, you know the answer. Ultimately with all of cinema, we are just trying to learn about ourselves. I have always used the opportunity to make a film to learn more about myself, which I am still doing.
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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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Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.
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To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'
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I like simplicity I don't need luxury.
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I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.
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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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The essence of cinema is editing.
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I still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.
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It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.
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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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