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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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The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.

~Francis Ford Coppola

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: April 7th, 1939

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