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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. "

Francis Ford Coppola

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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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" 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 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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" The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy. "

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" I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. "

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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 know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission. "

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

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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 had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school. "

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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 think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories. "

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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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" 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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" Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful. "

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" I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets. "

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" Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance. "

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

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" I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.' "

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

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" I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that. "

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" To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.' "

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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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" 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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" 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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