The Conversation' Was The First Film I

Writing Is A Process Of Discovery Of What You Really Do Know. You Can't Limit Yourself In Advance To What You Know, Because You Don't Know Everything You Know.

There Are Two Kinds Of Filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the Film Is Complete In The Director's Mind) And Coppola's (which Thrives On Process). For Hitchcock, Any Variation From The Complete Internal Idea Is Seen As A Defect. The Perfection Already Exists. Coppola's Approach Is To Harvest The Random Elements That The Process Throws Up, Things That Were Not In His Mind When He Began.

Film Editing Is Now Something Almost Everyone Can Do At A Simple Level And Enjoy It, But To Take It To A Higher Level Requires The Same Dedication And Persistence That Any Art Form Does.

By Manipulating What You Hear And How You Hear It - And What Other Things You Don't Hear - You Can Not Only Help Tell The Story, You Can Help The Audience Get Into The Mind Of The Character.

Every Film Is Hard Work, And A Few Lucky People Do Get Oscars For What They Do, And It's Recognition For All That Hard Work On A Certain Level. If You Didn't Do The Hard Work, You Wouldn't Be Standing There. On The Other Hand, People Do A Lot Of Hard Work And Don't Get Oscars, So It's A Mixture Of Glory And Injustice At The Same Time.