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But Who Said Art Has To Cost Money? And Therefore, Who Says Artists Have To Make Money?

Most Directors Have One Masterpiece By Which They Are Known. Kurosawa Has At Least Eight Or Nine.

Most Filmmakers Can't Afford To Try Something Out That Doesn't Work.

It's Ironic That At Age 32, At Probably The Greatest Moment Of My Career, With The Godfather Having Such An Enormous Success, I Wasn't Even Aware Of It, Because I Was Somewhere Else Under The Deadline Again.

I Landed A Job With Roger Corman. The Job Was To Write The English Dialogue For A Russian Science Fiction Picture. I Didn't Speak Any Russian. He Didn't Care Whether I Could Understand What They Were Saying; He Wanted Me To Make Up Dialogue.