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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. "

Francis Ford Coppola

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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 associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant. "

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

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" I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school. "

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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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most. "

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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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" 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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" I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college. "

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" I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while. "

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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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" I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life! "

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

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" Art depends on luck and talent. "

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

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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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" I probably have genius. But no talent. "

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