I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
Francis Ford CoppolaMost 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.
Francis Ford CoppolaI was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.
Francis Ford Coppola