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I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

~Francis Ford Coppola

Topics: Ambitious Been Better Fail Failed Fortunate Life Mundane My Life Overly Succeed Than Think Upward Very Way I Think

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I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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Movie-wise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I've financed myself.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: April 7th, 1939

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