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" Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. "
Francis Ford Coppola
You
Anything
Build
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" It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me. "
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" I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.' "
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" Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker. "
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" We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane. "
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" 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. "
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" I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories. "
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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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" I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant. "
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Career
Gun
" 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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Never
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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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Glue
Bicycle
Paper
" I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school. "
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Dumb
IQ
School
" In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales. "
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Job
Classic
Tell
" I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Solo
Father
Family
" I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Believe
You
Think
" It takes no imagination to live within your means. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Within
Imagination
Live
" 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. "
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Successful
Feel
Best
" When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.' "
Francis Ford Coppola
Graduation
You
Now
" 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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Talent
Time
Made
" 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
" We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Love
Idea
Support
" If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Yourself
Restaurant
Time
" All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other. "
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Great
People
Other
" The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Good
Flag
Good Work
" I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school. "
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School
Kind
Kid
" Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Never
Everything
Personal
" The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy. "
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Kind
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People
" I like simplicity; I don't need luxury. "
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Simplicity
Luxury
Like
" 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. "
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Life
Me
Personal
" 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. "
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Time
Test
Growing Up
" 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. "
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Want
Will