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There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
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I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I've financed myself.
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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 was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.
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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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The essence of cinema is editing.
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I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.
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A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.
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I like simplicity I don't need luxury.
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We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.
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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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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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I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.
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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 was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time, consciousness and the dream-like basis of reality.
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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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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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Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.
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The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.
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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 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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