Francis Ford Coppola on Writing

Excerpt from a 2009 episode of "Hollywood's Best Film Directors" with Francis Ford Coppola.
The filmmaker describes the way he writes scripts and compares writing to "an actor doing an improvisation".
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[@StephenDedalus74]

I think I have never been as excited and impatient for the release of a film as I am for "Megalopolis" !!!! :) I hope it will be his greatest film since "Apocalypse Now" !! :) His most daring, hypnotic, profound, visionnary picture since his masterpieces of the seventies !!! :)

[@teodor6835]

It looks stylistically awful

[@realmediummike]

@@teodor6835have u seen it?

[@BookClubDisaster]

Me tooooooo. I just completed a draft of a book and I learned to rarely go back and read what I wrote. Just keep going. Don't want to risk breaking the spell.

[@Klopp619]

Yup, and once you have the entire story you are finally qualified to "polish" it, because it's not until there is a completed draft do you actually know your own creation.

[@GuineaPigEveryday]

Thats a great way of looking at it, I get the sense a lot of writers give this advice, that you need to finish a draft first, and then u can scrutinise and edit and nitpick all you want,

[@OpticLureProductions]

wow great clip never heard this one and thats some killer advice

[@multigodslayer1760]

He's just like me fr fr

[@CannibalWHORE22]

If your going to get advice in how to write movies. This is really a great example by one of the greatest director/screenwriters in America.

[@realhillkell]

The greatest

[@elichilton7031]

Permiscuous imagination. What a great turn of phrase.

[@benrosn8154]

This guys fantastic