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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
Actor
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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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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 never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.
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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'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.
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Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives.
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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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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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When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.
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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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There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.
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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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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.
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I like simplicity I don't need luxury.
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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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I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
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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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Today's winemakers still worry about quality.
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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 was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.
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