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I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

~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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Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into my work, I get lost sometimes in bizarre things - it's my Italian heritage.

~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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: April 7th, 1939

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