23 August 2009
Two great interviews with Francis Fort Copolla on his film career
Posted by admin under: Filmmakers; Filmmaking; Indiependent Film; Movie; News .
Some of the highlights from the interview:
On his path now…
“I’m trying to follow my heart and do the more personal films I would like to do. Obviously, to write stories and scripts that are not of immediate commercial nature, you need to make them less expensively so the rules of my second career are a) write all the screenplays, b) write all the stories and c) not go chasing after some idea of success.” Of course, success is what has allowed Coppola to make these smaller more personal films.
On big tentpole films:
“I finally accepted that the bigger the budget, the stupider the movie had to be… The smaller the budget, the more ambitious you can be.” Of course, avoiding big budget films and making those smaller budget films also comes with its own set of problems.
and how he wrote Tetro
“I was editing Youth Without Youth,” he explains, “and I flew off from Bucharest to Positano for the weekend. I just checked into a hotel and wrote six pages. Then the next weekend, I flew off to Thessaloniki after five days of editing, checked into a hotel with a view of the sea, and wrote another six pages. I’d do that every weekend: go off to a nice hotel, sit in there, set up my table and write. By the time I finished editing Youth Without Youth, I had 110 pages.”
Read the two interviews here and here.