Francis Ford Coppola
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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.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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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.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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“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.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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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.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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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.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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“We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn’t speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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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.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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“I was never sloppy with other people’s money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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“It takes no imagination to live within your means.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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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.’” -Francis Ford Coppola
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“We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn’t speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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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.’” -Francis Ford Coppola
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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.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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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.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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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.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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“I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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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. – Francis Ford Coppola
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