I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.
Francis Ford CoppolaMost directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.
Francis Ford CoppolaI 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 CoppolaWhen I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.
Francis Ford Coppola