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" 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! "

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" 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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" '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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" 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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Death

Growing Old

" 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. "

" 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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Going

Job

" I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten. "

" 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. "

" Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school. "

Francis Ford Coppola

Dumb

School

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic. "

Francis Ford Coppola

Talent

Ideas

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement. "

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Discouragement

Teachers

" If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again. "