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Francis Ford Coppola Biography

Francis Ford Coppola (US: /ˈkoʊpələ/; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer. He was a central figure in the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking.

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If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.

Camp Counselors, Children, Counselor, Liked, Want

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

Art, Beautiful, Element, Make, Risk

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

Gatsby, Jobs, Movie, Write, Writing

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

Imagination, Live, Mean, Takes

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.

Art, Films, Ideas, Interesting, Lower, Themes

Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.

Critics, Make, Realise, Realising, Stimulating

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

Finding Yourself, Hotel, Restaurant, Restaurants, Yes

When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.

Came, Glue, Paper, Unions, Worked

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.

Back, Girl, Polio, School, Teacher, Wonderful

The essence of cinema is editing.

Cinema, Editing, Essence

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

Director, Directors, Photographer, Reality

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.

Beach, Done, Helicopter, Landed, Night, Philippines

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.

Early, Hurt, Like, Morning, Phones, Place

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

Apocalypse, Conversation, Morality, Privacy

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

Like, Luxury, Needs, Simplicity

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.

Courage, Courageous, Ideas, Instincts, Knuckle, Memorable

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

Actors, Movie, Question, Sense, Think, Thinking

You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.

Different, George, Opinion, Reason, Reasons, Telling

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!

Ambitious, Life, Succeed, Thinking, Way

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

Course, Crafts, Illusion, Student, Students, Working

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