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" George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again. "

Francis Ford Coppola

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" Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most. "

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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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" I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets. "

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" I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini. "

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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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" I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. "

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" 'The Godfather' changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely made me have an older man's film career when I was 29. "

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

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" 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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" Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker. "

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" I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. "

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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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" 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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" It takes no imagination to live within your means. "

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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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" 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 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

" 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. "

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" Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. "

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

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" I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me. "

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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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