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"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."

"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."

"Cinema has become a global economy, totally international."

"The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty."
Explore more quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

"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."

"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."

"The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college."

"I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini."

"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."

"When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'"
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