“It takes no imagination to live within your means.”
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Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.
