Posted on Jan 27, 2009
Coppola on Finian's Rainbow
"Films are like haiku; they express a thought or an emotion in very few words and using just the being of the actors to do it."
--Francis Ford Coppola, from the director's commentary of "Finian's Rainbow"
I recently finished Moviemakers' Master Class by Laurent Tirard, a book I picked up in Cannes during the film festival last year. Over the course of reading, I compiled a short list of films I had to watch for homework. One of those films came from this quote by Ethan Coen:
"I remember when we worked with Nicolas Cage on Raising Arizona, we talked about his uncle, Francis Ford Coppola, and told him that
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