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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. "

Francis Ford Coppola

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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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" 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 had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director. "

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

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" As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work. "

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" Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships. "

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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 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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" I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into my work, I get lost sometimes in bizarre things - it's my Italian heritage. "

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

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

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

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" The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy. "

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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. "

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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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" Art depends on luck and talent. "

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" I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money. "

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" 'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean. "

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" Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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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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