#ma

George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#george #george lucas #just #lucas #making

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#care #corman #could #dialogue #english

I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#harder #hardware #i #into #little

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing. ↗

— Dave Freudenthal

#inaction #may #nothing #safe

I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and the only use for lithium-6 is the hydrogen bomb. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#bomb #call #hydrogen #i #materials

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#anything #business #human #human nature #i

Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#deal #exploited #fair #gave #him

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#family #great #i #job #making

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#book #darkness #did #heart #i

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor. ↗

— Sofia Coppola

#because #bring #dad #editing #film