Francis Ford Coppola — American Director born on April 07, 1939,

Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking... (wikipedia)

I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.