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Writer Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola
- I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker.…
- 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…
- When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was…
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