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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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" 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. "

Francis Ford Coppola

Money

My Own

Career

" 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. "

" My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. "

" 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. "

" '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

" 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. "

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

" As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work. "

" 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. "

" The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed. "

" 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. "

" I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money. "

" Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature. "

" We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane. "

" I probably have genius. But no talent. "

" 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. "

" Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand. "

" If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business. "

" 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. "

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

" I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic. "

Francis Ford Coppola

Talent

Ideas

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

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

" I like simplicity; I don't need luxury. "

Francis Ford Coppola

Simplicity

Luxury

" 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. "

" Art depends on luck and talent. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It takes no imagination to live within your means. "

" 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. "