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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 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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I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
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I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.
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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 still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.
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I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.
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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.
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Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.
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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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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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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 wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
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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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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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I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.
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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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I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.
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