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Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola
- I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
- 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.
- I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.
- I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying he wanted me to make up dialogue.
- I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
- I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
- I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.
- 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.
- 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. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.
- It takes no imagination to live within your means.
- It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
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