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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. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Way
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Beyond
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" My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost. "
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Three
Money
" I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie. "
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Friends
Much
Been
" The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it. "
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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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Paper
" I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Morning
Alone
Water
" I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets. "
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Build
Gadgets
Shop
" I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school. "
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Well
School
Number
" My company and people think I'm wacky when I have an idea... I know if I have an idea, no one will want to go through it. But if I persist, people will go through it. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Think
Want
Will
" I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Time
Test
Growing Up
" I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Lonely
Age
College
" When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television. "
Francis Ford Coppola
You
Children
People
" 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. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Love
Work
Myself
" Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Always
Vision
Example
" They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Job
Support
Family
" It takes no imagination to live within your means. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Within
Imagination
Live
" Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. "
Francis Ford Coppola
You
Anything
Build
" 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. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Brother
Work
Early
" You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Courage
You
Memorable
" People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Work
People
Movies
" Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Some
Better
Critics
" 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. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Me
Live
Television
" Art depends on luck and talent. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Art
Depends
Luck
" Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do. "
Francis Ford Coppola
World
Days
Cinema
" I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Because
Telling
Thought
" 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. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Wealth
Thought
Small
" That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Life
Me
Personal
" Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Patriotism
You
Real
" 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. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Sense
You
Get
" Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Successful
Feel
Best
" I like simplicity; I don't need luxury. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Simplicity
Luxury
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