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" Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up. "

Francis Ford Coppola

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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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" A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually. "

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" You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it. "

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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 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 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 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 like simplicity; I don't need luxury. "

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" It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again. "

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" When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty. "

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" My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. "

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" I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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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" We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun. "

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" I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college. "

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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 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 think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life! "

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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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" I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories. "

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" I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school. "

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" The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it. "

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" To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.' "

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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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" 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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" 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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