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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. "
Francis Ford Coppola
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Nothing
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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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" I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement. "
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" When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television. "
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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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" 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. "
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" By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start. "
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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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" 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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" I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam. "
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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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" When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material. "
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" Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way. "
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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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" 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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" Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea. "
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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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" 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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Days
Cinema
" Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most. "
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Your
Work
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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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" 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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" I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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