It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
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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.Francis Ford Coppola
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.
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I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
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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.
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I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.
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I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.
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