It takes no imagination to live within your means.
From Francis Ford Coppola
I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.
We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun.
We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.
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.
In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.
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.
I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.
I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.
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