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" I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. "
Francis Ford Coppola
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" 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. "
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" I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun. "
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" When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty. "
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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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" My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph. "
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" All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other. "
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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 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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" 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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" I like simplicity; I don't need luxury. "
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" You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost. "
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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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" 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 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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" 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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" '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 takes no imagination to live within your means. "
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" They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family. "
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" Art depends on luck and talent. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.' "
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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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" 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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" The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it. "
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