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Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.

Francis Ford Coppola

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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
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I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to work, which for now is to think and read and write, so it's all a dream come true.
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I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!
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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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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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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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So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.
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Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.
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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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The essence of cinema is editing.
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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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I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.
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I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.
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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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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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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.
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I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.
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