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" Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work. "

Francis Ford Coppola

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" I like simplicity; I don't need luxury. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" 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 bring to my life a certain amount of mess. "

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

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" I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. "

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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 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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" 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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" The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college. "

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" We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food. "

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