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Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
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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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A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.
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Today's winemakers still worry about quality.
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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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In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.
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I still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.
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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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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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'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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I'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.
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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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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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I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.
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Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.
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Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.
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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 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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When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.
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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'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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