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

Francis Ford Coppola

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" I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor. "

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" I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" '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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" I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most. "

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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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" We do things for good reasons that are bad. "

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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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" Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance. "

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" My company and people think I'm wacky when I have an idea... I know if I have an idea, no one will want to go through it. But if I persist, people will go through it. "

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