"The things you get fired for when you're young are the same things you get lifetime achievements for when you're old'"

I can listen to Coppola talk all day. I love that his age he's still thinking about film form. He's a national treasure, along with Scorsese, Spielberg, Mann, etc.

"learning and music are they only things that you really pleasure from that doesn't bite you back" What a genius

Coppolla's passion for cinema history, story-telling and movie-making in general shines through every time he speaks. A true artist.

Love the scene when the Don scares his grandson with the orange peel and then quickly takes it out when he realizes he's actually scared him that's the real Brando apparently he had a real soft spot for kids

He is so down-to-earth while being openly pleased to be in this business and have his family in this business. What a marvelous man.

He is one of those people that you could listen to for hours on end and never get bored - a great engaging storyteller.

“The writing itself is the future of cinema,” his point was really good on how the novel is a few hundred years old but even now it’s still changing. Film will always be the same way I feel

I just finished watching Godfather 1 for the 86th time (and yes, I keep count). What gets me most about this interview is knowing how close that movie came to never being made. Ultimately, it came down to Coppola's willingness to cajole, and beg, and demand, and suffer that that masterpiece ever came to exist at all. So thanks, Francis, for being great, because you could have just decided to throw up your hands and be mediocre.

Apocalypse Now is a masterpiece.

FYI: the composer he mentions in 4:45 is Witold Lutosławski

The immediately observable glowing unconditional love this man has for his family warms my heart. Francis Ford Coppola will go down as being just one of the best human beings ever.

Francis Ford Coppola is in my top 5 favorite directors of all time and Sofia Coppola is my favorite female director of all time, and shout out to Gia Coppola who did a great job on her directorial debut Palo Alto.

He seems like such a lovely guy to talk with, honestly.

the Brando stuff begins at 19:00

What a beautiful, human and insightful interview by one of the greatest directors of all time.

Brando's Secretary persuaded him 2,3,4 times to read the script...and he loved props, so the cotton wool or tissues came out.....excellent!!!

Happy 80th Birthday Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola is truly a brilliant man.

Wonderful interview (and the interviewer has a great voice, BTW). I transcribed this part because I want to keep it and re-read it over and over again when I'm thinking about my writing: "I thought it [The future of cinema] broke down into three categories. The fist is the script, because the script - be it a script, a play, or a novel is always being reinvented. You think about the novel - what is it? 400 years old? the earliest novels, Don Quixote, and Elective Affinities (peaking of Goethe) - but through those 400 years the novel has gone through incredible transformations dealing with point of view (you know, from whose point of view is the novel being told), and then we went through the great French - Flaubert and the great French artists, and it changed, Dickens and the serial form; and it changed, and then you got into the really modern times, with Joyce... So then the writing itself is the future of the cinema because there're gonna be... your great-grandchildren who are going to make cinema - what will that be like? I bet you the scripts themselves - or what, I call it a script, but the writing that precedes all movies is gonna be revolutionised, and those very themes - point of view, and interior consciousness, things like that are parallel structures, so within the very writing of cinema, which is at the basis of cinema, there in incredible, wonderful work that's gonna happen. "The second category... the documentary. The documentary is a form that's unique because it uses editing and manipulation, even some reshooting - but it's dealing with real, honest-to-goodness people and emotions. Documentary is a very interesting form, and gradually that will grow in ways that we can't imagine, and become more personal, and become combined with fiction in ways that we can't even anticipate - and hence, sure enough last year Sarah Polley makes Stories People Tell, which is exactly that, which is a documentary (beautiful film, definitely see it... I think it was nominated for an Academy Award). This lovely actor ... and now a film-maker makes this documentary that just sweeps you in and then pulls you and suddenly it's about things (I don't want to ruin for you), so personal and so touching that you can't imagine. So I said. 'Surely that is a whole new form of cinema: the real evolution of the documentary film and the documentary fiction film...' "But the third area really fascinated me because in the end I'm just a boy scientist. And the third area of cinema is the fact that now it's electronic, it's digital. You know that when they talk about television and they talk about movies, that that talk is nonsense: there's no difference. Television and movies are the same thing - it's all electronic. The movie theatres that we go to ... that's a form of a television projector. That's not a movie projector... And the cameras that shoot it are digital and electronic, and the editing is a computer. Nothing about film, technically, is the same as it was 30 years ago when we actually had Moviolas (and my great teacher, Dorothy Osner, who was the editor of Stagecoach, cut films - they said - 'in hand,' because when the silent editors took the film and went like that [shows pulling upward], they knew the length of time that was. She told me, 'Francis, if you have a kiss, three arms is a very, very long kiss, but four arms is a really sexy kiss.')"

One of the great things with Bram Stoker's Dracula is how incredible that soundtrack is; Wojcik Kilar, amazing soundtrack!

An overused word...genius...but for Mr. Coppola...very appropre. I met him one day in NYC when he was considering shooting Kerouac's "On the road"...I was so excited that when I shook his hand I think I might have hurt him a bit...'cause after my audition I wanted to shake his hand again...he deftly gave me his other hand...and we both laughed. A nice memory! A true artiste!

Anyone know if Coppola still has that Brando/Godfather screen-test footage?

GodFather Part (1) is on the very top list of MY favourite movies ever made in Cinema's history and I am very sure that if anyone else played Brando's role in that movie even if he was 100% Italian will not even come close. Thank You Mr. Coppola for this master piece and thank Mr. Marlon Brando for doing it.

Imagine being the person who called Marlon Brando on the phone that day and Brando was experimenting with his Vito voice to you! This was before The Godfather became The Godfather we know it as. That has to be one memorable phone call.

the interviewer wasted a fourth of the interview on obscure polish cinema but francis, as always, handled it with grace and aplomb...

Rear window movie ended a depression of mine, reenergised me "there is ebauty in l,ife, magic"... some masterpieces are soulfood.... We are so blessed to live in this era...

Great, great, great, storyteller.

Brilliant guy! Love to listen to you Mr. Coppola.

Note that at 25.29 , it cuts from Coppola talking about the Godfather to him talking about Brando's role in Apocalypse Now

Shame he doesn't make movies anymore because nobody is like him today. Made some of my favorites of all time, great man

Just wow! Such a man. Thank you so much for this interview.

Fabulous lecture ! Congratulations mr. Francis Ford Coppola !

Wonderful interview!

Listening to this American icon I realized how down to Earth he really is. High IQ. with a great sense of humor too. Enjoyed the interview. Ms. Annette Insdorf is a revelation.

What well thought out answers. Really enjoyed this. Excellent.

What a wise man! Got to learn so much from him, just about life ❤️

The Lost Saragossa Manuscripts is an excellent film which shows the same moment from two different perspectives at different times. It's where Tarantino got the idea to do this in his films from. See it if you can. I saw it in a Berkeley Film Festival and in Denver at The Ogden Theater that used to show collections of films. A special place.

great artist , genius

awesome!!! i love Coppolla!!!

interesting interview thank you

thank u very much for such an inspiring, master class interview..........I think we r all enriched by this.

What a great man! I hope he lives forever!

Watching this is the Most enlightment moment of my life.

Mr. Coppola - I have been truly humbled- I am sorry for my arrogance- more importantly for my failure to preform. I am grateful for every opportunity you gave me and the patronage you afforded a sonoma county hick. I love you and admire you. God bless your success and the generations of Coppola’s to come.

I enjoyed this very much, thanks for sharing. If only we could see that Brando's "test screen"!

Great interviews...just imagine, Marlon Brando with polish in his blond hair. Delightful.

Learning and music never hit you back! Isn’t true? Coppola is the Nation treasure.

What a great interviewer.

fascinating brilliant man

He said in one interview that while he was filming the Godfather, that crewmembers would walk around saying: "what a piece of junk!" Or-"What a ton of garbage! This film will go nowhere's!" COPPOLA: "Now I hear everyone say what a classic film it is. And how great it is! I sure wish those fans were around during filmiing, because I sure could have used them."

I can't hate this woman. Twenty years ago she introduced me to E. Klimov who is a master. She's been around for a long time and knows her shit.

My favorite filmmaker...

you know, studying filmmaking in a certain era is one thing, with all the history of filmmaking etc. However, having lived those eras, as mr. Coppola, is a whole other story. That's called real experience. He is one of the milestones in filmmaking history, who has all the rights to praise or criticize.

fantastic movie maker.............just brilliant...........

The great Guru of cinema!

Here is a man who got it right. But from what I hear he grow up in a family that art, food and family was very much vibrant and omnipresent.

He's 78 but he sounds like he's 30!

I would LOVE to see the footage of Brando's transformation

One of the greatest director of all time

Great interviewer. The depth of her knowledge was impressive

what a gem of a human

I love his impressions. I'm not saying they're extensive or the best but they are good and unexpected. Lol!

Incredible

After all of the grief and difficulty Brando put Francis through, you would think he would resent Brando. Instead, he reveres Brando and calls him one of the few geniuses he ever met. Brando must have been special, because Francis himself is a genius.

learning can bite you back too. Ecclesiastes 1:17 "And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit."

Mr. Coppola, you don’t have to die and go heaven or wait around to be born again. Just tune in to what this place has got to offer because we may never be here again.

i saw him once at at book fair in frisco. he was lookiing at very expensive old medical books..

Love his pronunciation of Virginia Woolf at around 10:35. 'Vghi wol'

thanks!

Iam proud of my country POLAND

Thx 1138.

A giant of the movies.

The Master Director !

A GREAT LEGEND WHO MADE THE NUMBER ONE MOTION PICTURE MOVIE OF ALL TIME THE GODFATHER

Yes to everything

He's Nicholas Cage uncle. Talented family

Glad this is his opinion on 3D. I categorically prefer 2D movies. Your imagination can then do the 3D part. It allows you to particulate more in the movie, and a good filmmaker is aware of this. 3D involves all sorts of tricks and manipulations of your viewers attention that the magic is lost. Gravity for example tried it all, but failed on crappy story, empty characters and bad writing.

Coppola somehow reminds me of Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now

WoW, Francis is so engaging.

Sounds like yet another Brando fan, how could he not be ??

Francis Ford Coppolla is a genius movie maker

I guy playing the role of Coppolas the guy that played Wozniak in Steve Jobs

What a legend, I can't wait to see Megalopolis.

Sage words here

When talking about the Polish composers, does he mean Witold Lutoslawski?

great

Captain EO was the best 3D/4D film ever. Coppola directed it.

I think some people may disparage his genuis because he is so earthy and because some of his films were not that great, but don’t mistake him for not being one of the greatest movie makers of all time!

he's a very lucky man.

He is so funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ashes and diamond by Andrzej Wajda. What a surprising thing a real history gives to us,i mean,he made the film on the basis of the book with the same title, and the book took its plot out of....HISTORY,a Polish one, after ww2

FFC is a brilliant man

Cinema ….. history……..but Brando ?? Oh my !! We all fan girl over Brando !!!

I loved the Godfather! A classic crime film! I've seen it many times.

His greatest movies: The Godfather, The Godfather Part II & Apocalypse Now

who is referring to at 10:37 right after Joyce

rumblw fish is the greatest casting/script/imaging/sound/social comment, that is film, ever!

Actualy, some thing interesting in way of culture comes from Poland.? Directors of his era have a vast knowledge of the history of cinema from around the world.

Failure does not exist here, ftw!