Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.
Francis Ford CoppolaI associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.
Francis Ford CoppolaListen, 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 CoppolaI wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.
Francis Ford Coppola