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Francis Ford Coppola
American
Director
Born:
Apr 7
,
1939
Because
Me
People
Think
Work
You
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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.
Francis Ford Coppola
Love
Science
About
Inventor
Could
Terrible
Read
Scientist
Scientists
Maths
Wanted
To Love
Used
Grasp
Lives
Movie-wise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time.
Francis Ford Coppola
Time
Nothing
Every
Every Time
Possible
Perfect
Make
Movie
Again
Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.
Francis Ford Coppola
Cinema
Distributor
Audience
Becomes
Brand
Done
Sequels
Film
Filmmakers
If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.
Francis Ford Coppola
Time
You
Business
Yourself
Says
Find
Restaurant
Restaurant Business
Hotel
Most
Yes
Person
Who
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.
Francis Ford Coppola
Myself
Wealth
Thought
Blessed
Films
Enough
Way
Financed
Would
One-Way
Small
Budget
Make
Been
Up
Very
Personal
Just
Certain
Film
Reinvent
My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph.
Francis Ford Coppola
Love
Beautiful
Family
You
Musicians
Eyes
Our
Photograph
See
More
Opera
Also
Era
Were
Close
Than
Listen
Movies
Far
Used
Radio
Night
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.
Francis Ford Coppola
Work
Myself
Cinema
Doubt
Enjoy
Relationships
Our
Kind
Would
Born
Like
Wrote
Make
Sort
Without
Deals
Times
Commercial
Want
Wanted
Which
Movies
Who
Original
Novelist
Filmmaker
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.
Francis Ford Coppola
Out
Able
Emerge
Write
Know
Make
Without
Ready
Permission
Go
Off
Anyone
Asking
Film
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
Francis Ford Coppola
You
Passion
Build
Chaos
Scale
Invites
Intense
Anything
Large
Large-Scale
I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!
Francis Ford Coppola
Life
Better
My Life
Think
Way
Fail
Failed
Overly
Been
Ambitious
Very
Than
Upward
Succeed
Fortunate
Mundane
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.
Francis Ford Coppola
You
People
Television
Paralyzed
About
Had
Polio
Isolated
Were
Very
Frightened
Children
While
Watched
Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.
Francis Ford Coppola
Love
You
Learning
Experience
Cinema
Made
About
Lifelong
Never
Never Stop
Knows
Affair
Love Affair
Stop
Anyone
Film
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.
Francis Ford Coppola
You
Patriotism
Country
Become
Possibility
Something
Could
Exciting
Most
Real
Came
Italians
Very
Patriotic
Loved
Worked
Successful
Hard
Who
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.'
Francis Ford Coppola
You
Degree
Big
Feature
Feature Film
Had
Make
Boy
Graduate
Graduate Degree
Going
Graduation
Famous
Decided
Which
Thesis
Film
Now
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.
Francis Ford Coppola
Life
Money
Three
Big
Films
Rule
Out
Critics
Seem
Make
Opinion
Always
How
Go
Goal
Lot
Off
Irrespective
Roost
Figure
Who
Four
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.
Francis Ford Coppola
Death
Me
Strong
Old
Approaching
Thought
See
Daunting
Idea
Disappointing
Like
Particularly
Legs
Little
Your
Growing
Growing Old
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.
Francis Ford Coppola
You
Everybody
Telling
Directed
Absolutely
Never
Opinion
George
George Lucas
Different
Which
Again
Lucas
Reasons
Profession
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.
Francis Ford Coppola
Work
Good
Trouble
Good Work
Considered
Scene
Casting
Remembered
Stuff
Got
Godfather
Flag
Patton
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.
Francis Ford Coppola
You
People
Opportunity
Responsibility
Young
Gave
Kind
He
Fair
Him
Deal
Roger
Young People
Worked
Exploited
Really
Who
I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.
Francis Ford Coppola
Young
Enthusiastic
Mainly
Became
Because
Very
Quite
Just
Worked
Successful
Hard
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.
Francis Ford Coppola
Remember
Tears
Thought
Playwright
Everything
Seventeen
Way
Weak
No Talent
Writer
Had
Talent
Wrote
Because
Falling
Sixteen
Wanted
Asleep
'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
Classical
More
Shakespearean
Driving
Driving Force
Almost
Force
Very
Godfather
Shot
Whole
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.
Francis Ford Coppola
Me
Failure
Live
Television
Possible
TV
Would
Would-Be
Only
Excites
Performing
Artists
Substitute
Interested
Act
Exploring
Team
Live Television
Peak
You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.
Francis Ford Coppola
Love
Time
You
Hate
Will
Ought
Over
Because
Doing
Movie
To Love
Really
Start
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.
Francis Ford Coppola
Great
Family
Job
Took
Great Gatsby
Some
Someone
Write
Support
Sure
Making
Were
Very
Quickly
Movie
Script
Dough
Needed
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