I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if… — Quoted

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“I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.”

Francis Ford Coppola · Business

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As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

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I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

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When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.

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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.

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