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" I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Time
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Movies
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" I bring to my life a certain amount of mess. "
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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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" 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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Thought
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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. "
Francis Ford Coppola
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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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Morning
Alone
Water
" 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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Within
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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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Girl
School
Experience
" I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be. "
Francis Ford Coppola
You
Money
Never
" I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Build
Gadgets
Shop
" 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. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Movies
Results
Promotion
" 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. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Me
Death
Growing Old
" 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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Me
Going
Job
" 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! "
Francis Ford Coppola
Think
Succeed
Better
" Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. "
Francis Ford Coppola
You
Anything
Build
" 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. "
Francis Ford Coppola
You
Vietnam
Love
" 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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Patriotism
You
Real
" It takes no imagination to live within your means. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Within
Imagination
Live
" 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. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Ready
Without
Film
" The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed. "
Francis Ford Coppola
You
Bed
Bottle
" 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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Deadline
Success
Career
" I like simplicity; I don't need luxury. "
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Simplicity
Luxury
Like
" 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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World
Days
Cinema
" I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic. "
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Talent
More
Ideas
" Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand. "
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Audience
Film
Done
" 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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Start
Morning
Peace
" Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea. "
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Always
Vision
Example
" 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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Art
Reason
Interesting
" 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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Friends
Much
Been
" 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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Like
Mean
Thought
" I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me. "
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World
Never
Always