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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. "

Francis Ford Coppola

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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 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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" A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually. "

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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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" 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 the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker. "

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" My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost. "

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

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" 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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" 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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" That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life. "

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" Movie-wise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time. "

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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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" 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 thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. "

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" Art depends on luck and talent. "

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