When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.

It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.

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.

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.

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.