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" I like simplicity; I don't need luxury. "
Francis Ford Coppola
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" When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public. "
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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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" My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. "
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" The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me. "
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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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" 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 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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" 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 liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets. "
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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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" I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button. "
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" I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school. "
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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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" Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way. "
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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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" The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work. "
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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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" 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'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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" 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 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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" '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 gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films. "
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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 have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic. "
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" I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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