Francis Ford Coppola
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"Francis Ford Coppola" is an American film director, Film producer/producer and screenwriter. He was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking.

In 1970, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer, with Edmund H. North, of Patton (film)/Patton (1970). His directorial prominence was cemented with the release in 1972 of The Godfather, a film which revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre, earning praise from both critics and the public before winning three Academy Awards—including his second Academy Awards/Oscar (Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay/Best Adapted Screenplay, with Mario Puzo), Academy Award for Best Picture/Best Picture, and his first nomination for Academy Award for Best Director/Best Director.

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The book is inherently difficult to adapt to the screen, and we've never quite found the right combination of director and writer to do it justice until now.

I have come here to rediscover myself as an artist.

Art depends on luck and talent.

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

The Outsiders: The Complete Novel.

I do the things I love on the theory that ? there might be other people enjoying the same things that I enjoy, ... And I just gravitate to what I think is authentic, pleasurable and has quality.

To me, it was fun, ... To them, it was a life-and-death career thing.

Ironically, 'Apocalypse Now' was a great, great success and remains to this day a classic -- and really is one of the things that earns the money that supports my family, ... But at the time, when 'Apocalypse Now' was actually about to come out, I was very worried about it.

I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better: time, consciousness and the dreamlike basis of reality.