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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. "

Francis Ford Coppola

Book

Darkness

Heart

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Ideas

" I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Live

Television

" It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me. "

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Death

Growing Old

" The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it. "

" 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. "

" Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful. "

" 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. "

Francis Ford Coppola

People

Just

" 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. "

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

" In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Art depends on luck and talent. "

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

" I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement. "

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Discouragement

Teachers

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

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

" Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal. "

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

" We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun. "