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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. "

Francis Ford Coppola

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Going

Job

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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. "

Francis Ford Coppola

Live

Television

" A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually. "

" 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. "

" 'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean. "

Francis Ford Coppola

Style

Way

" 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. "

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

" We do things for good reasons that are bad. "

" When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have. "

" You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it. "

" I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again. "

" Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work. "

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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. "