Francis Ford Coppola Quotes
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
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Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?'
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Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
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To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.
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Nothing is cut while I'm shooting. I edit between nine months and a year, and usually have around 80 hours of footage I have to get down to an 82-minute movie.
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Film and television are very different. On the TV show, we do seven or eight scenes a day, so time and money are of the essence, and we have zero room for creativity because you've got to do each scene in only five takes. Whereas, on a film, you have an entire day to film one scene, so you have so much time to choose how you want to fill in a scene.
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My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.
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It's like, what happened, I was always leading fashion, and then the grunge thing kind of came along. And because I've been so on top in the '80s you know, I, you know, what can I do? Suddenly go grunge?
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My film is not a movie; it’s not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.
