So Much Of The Art Of Film

I Think It's Better To Be Overly Ambitious And Fail Than To Be Underambitious And Succeed In A Mundane Way. I Have Been Very Fortunate. I Failed Upward In My Life!

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.

They Needed Someone To Write A Script Of The Great Gatsby Very Quickly For The Movie They Were Making. I Took This Job So I'd Be Sure To Have Some Dough To Support My Family.

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.

The Essence Of Cinema Is Editing. It's The Combination Of What Can Be Extraordinary Images Of People During Emotional Moments, Or Images In A General Sense, Put Together In A Kind Of Alchemy.