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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. "

Francis Ford Coppola

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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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" 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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" 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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" I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me. "

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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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" I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing. "

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

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" Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. "

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" I probably have genius. But no talent. "

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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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" The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art. "

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" I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director. "

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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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" 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 only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me. "

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

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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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" '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 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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" 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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" We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane. "

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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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" Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued. "

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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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" 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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" If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor. "

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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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