Francis Ford Coppola
Oct 4, 2024 BY
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One of the things I love most in the world, that I’ve loved since I was a little boy, is that every Christmas I always get some halva. It's a Middle Eastern confection made from ground up sesame seeds and egg albumen into this heavenly candy. To this day, every Christmas, one of my kids gives me a chunk of halva, but I don't keep it in my house because I would just eat it all. I keep it in Sofia's house, and every once in a while I go and I take a little piece.
Oct 4, 2024
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A very favorite movie that I always loved and saw my own life in because it related to certain stories of my own family is The Thief of Baghdad starring Sabu, Conrad Veidt, and John Justin. The Thief of Baghdad, played by Sabu, is a boy traveling around with this older caliph who is a handsome friend, and they go on an extensive journey together. Their dynamic always made me think of me and my older brother – it's a fantasy beyond fantasies, that movie. I love it so much.
Oct 4, 2024
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I never knew Charlie Kaufman had written a book until I found “Antkind” after searching for “solipsist making a movie of his own life” on Google. I figured, well, this book is going to explain my life to me, so I read the whole thing, and it was very funny. It's long, but people who read it really enjoy it. It has this man, this writer, who has a unique mind and after reading this book, my perception of my own life felt completely different than it used to. My life felt like a fantasy being written by Charlie Kaufman – so that was my experience with “Antkind.”
Oct 4, 2024
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The most fun thing to do is to play with kids, be with a group of kids and just play with them and make up plays or stories. When I was younger I used to be a drama counselor: and I was in charge of about 9 boys, and I would always have so much fun with them, reading to them and doing treasure hunts.
Oct 4, 2024
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20 years ago, I decided I wanted to have some of those Hawaiian shirts, but you couldn't buy them anymore. So I had a dozen Hawaiian shirts made by someone I knew who was a costume designer, and I used to wear them wherever I went. Over time, I would go to Brazil, for example, people would say, oh, he's wearing a Coppola shirt. People started calling them “Coppola shirts,” and they started to get popular again. As they got more popular, companies started to make them available to buy again.Â
Then, I started wearing dissimilar socks to see if that would become a trend too – I think they do sell socks in mixed pairs now. It turns out that there's a boys' school in England where the tradition is to wear the wrong socks; there was also a famous physicist who wore mixed socks. So I'm not the only one.
Oct 4, 2024