I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time. -
I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie. -
I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking. -
I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act. -
I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
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- 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.
- I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
- 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.
- 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 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.