“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.”
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When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.
We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.
Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.