“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 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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“It takes no imagination to live within your means.”
— Francis Ford Coppola
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“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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“We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.”
— 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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“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.”
— 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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“I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.”
— Francis Ford Coppola
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