American - Director | April 7, 1939 -
I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.
Francis Ford Coppola
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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 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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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
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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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