- When young filmmakers ask him how to be a success, he often suggests, "get married." He recalled how nothing drove him to be a successful Hollywood screenwriter (he won an Oscar for writing Patton) more than a wife with a kid on the way.
- Coppola acknowledges that he made many films in the 1990s as a way to finance his dream project, Megalopolis. But even critical failures like Jack (1996) were things he was excited about (in that case, it was the chance to work with Robin Williams).
- After the monumental financial failure that was One From the Heart (1982), he took a lot of jobs-for-hire. They included Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), which he admitted on Monday was a hard film for which to get motivated. Until he realized that he should make it like the famous play, Our Town.
- During this slow creative period in his career, Coppola remembered days driving to the set and hoping the car wouldn't make it there. Which is why, he said, being the financier and producer of Youth Without Youth meant going to the set "with more anticipation."
- He said the realization of a planned adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road (which he is set to produce and Walter Salles will direct) will entirely depend on who is cast in the lead roles.
- Which of his wines would he recommend to a film student on a budget? "You can't go wrong with Rosso & Bianco. It's $11."
I keep trying to think who would be a good cast for On the Road and keep coming up with nothing. I remember reading a long time ago that Brad Pitt and Billy Crudup would be playing Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty but they seem a little old now. Mabye have Ryan Gosling as Sal and hell, I'm drawing a blank for Dean. I'll tell you who does look like Kerouac though, Daniel Craig.
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