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Francis Ford Coppola

The filmmaker on making art in Hollywood, immigration and going to Donald Trump’s school

Wine, hotels, films are all businesses in which you’ve had success. What has one taught you about the other? It’s all show business. Show business is a little derogatory, but it really is what it is. And even to the Greeks in the great golden age of Sophocles, it was still show business. The fact that I’ve not been stuck in one of those

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