QUOTES by Francis Ford Coppola
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"I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets."
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"I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie."
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"I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies."
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"I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school."
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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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"I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it."
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"I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant."
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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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"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."
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"Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget."
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"I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book."
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"As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can."
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"Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work."
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"I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be."
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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."
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"We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun."
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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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"I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor."
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"I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean."
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"Movie-wise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time."
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"I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing."
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"If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor."
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"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."
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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 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."
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"I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I've financed myself."
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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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"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.'"
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"The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it."
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"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."
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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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"Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued."
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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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"We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can't steal. You will take what we give you and you will put it in your own voice and that's how you will find your voice."
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"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."
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