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So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
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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 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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'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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