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Filmmaker Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola
- There's nothing creative about living within your means.
- Art depends on luck and talent.
- Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.
- Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.
- Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.
- When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get…
- Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies,…
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