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I Have More Of A Vivid Imagination Than I Have Talent. I Cook Up Ideas. It's Just A Characteristic.

I Have Always Credited The Writer Of The Original Material Above The Title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I Felt That I Didn't Have The Right To Francis Coppola's Anything Unless I Had Written The Story And The Screenplay.

Of All The Human Evils, Of Which We Have Thousands Of Years Of Record And Our Own Contemporary Experiences, The Most Horrible Evil Of All Is Hypocrisy. It's This Idea That There Are Those Who Do Bad And There Are Those Who Do Good, When, In Fact, Even The People Who Supposedly Do Good Are Saying They Do Good To Mask The Fact That They Do Evil.

I Gladly, I Voluntarily Gave Up The Kind Of Commercial Film Career I Had Going As Soon As I Had Enough Money To Finance My Own Films.

To Make Great Movies, There Is An Element Of Risk. You Have To Say, 'well, I Am Going To Make This Film, And It Is Not Really A Sure Thing.'