"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians."
-Francis Ford Coppola
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"I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.“
-Francis Ford Coppola
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"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."
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"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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"We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food."
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"I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini."
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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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