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" The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college. "

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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. "

Francis Ford Coppola

Again

You

Different

" 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. "

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

" I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini. "

" I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films. "

" 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

Personal

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean. "

Francis Ford Coppola

Mean

Thought

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

" 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. "

" I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to work, which for now is to think and read and write, so it's all a dream come true. "

" 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. "

" I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue. "

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

" I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do. "

Francis Ford Coppola

Good

Look

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into my work, I get lost sometimes in bizarre things - it's my Italian heritage. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

Francis Ford Coppola

Dumb

School

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "