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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. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Life
Me
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be. "
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" If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other. "
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