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" I bring to my life a certain amount of mess. "

Francis Ford Coppola

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" Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film. "

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" I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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 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 landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue. "

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" Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued. "

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

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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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" In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer. "

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" I probably have genius. But no talent. "

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" Art depends on luck and talent. "

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

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" By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start. "

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

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" When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget. "

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" I like simplicity; I don't need luxury. "

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" 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.' "

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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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" 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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