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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. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Glue
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" I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission. "
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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. "
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" I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water. "
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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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" We do things for good reasons that are bad. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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 don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing. "
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" A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually. "
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" Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I like simplicity; I don't need luxury. "
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" 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. "
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" Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way. "
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" 'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean. "
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" I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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