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- Depends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art depends on luck and talent.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.
- Ideas
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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.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fairy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
- Programming
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Camaraderie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020