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I still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
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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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You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.
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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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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. I didn't make that money necessarily from the film business, but I eventually made a lot of money and that's what I do. Of course, I consider myself unbelievably fortunate, and I'm pretty content with my life.
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Art depends on luck and talent.
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Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.
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Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
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The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.
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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 always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.
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The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.
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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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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 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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The essence of cinema is editing.
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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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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'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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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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It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.
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