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" As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Money
Long
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" I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button. "
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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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" The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college. "
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" We do things for good reasons that are bad. "
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" My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph. "
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" I bring to my life a certain amount of mess. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it. "
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" 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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" I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. "
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Direct
" I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school. "
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" The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art. "
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" I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets. "
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Gadgets
Shop
" 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. "
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Flag
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" Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature. "
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Nature
" If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor. "
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Want
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" If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business. "
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Restaurant
Time
" 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 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam. "
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" We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun. "
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" We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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