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" Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance. "

Francis Ford Coppola

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" When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have. "

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