Francis Ford Coppola

...all of my energies away from Happy Days were focused on trying to direct. I knew about Corman because of people who had come through like Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich. So I went in and told him: 'Frankly, I'm not that crazy about Eat My Dust,...

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...films, comedies and dramas often in less than two weeks, he also gave such Oscar-winning and nominated directors as Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, Ron Howard, Jonathan Demme and Peter Bogdanovich their big breaks.

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...would define and sell the movie. Coppola, Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Demme, John Sayles and James Cameron all worked for the producer in one capacity or another as they kick-started their careers. He was proof that in exceptional...

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...also introduced the world to many talented young filmmakers, including future Oscar-winning directors Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Demme and James Cameron, so it's always worth paying...

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...Splatter. A number of noted film directors worked with Corman, usually early in their careers, including Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard , Peter Bogdanovich, Armondo Linus Acosta, Jonathan Demme, Donald G. Jackson, Gale...

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It's bad enough when filmmakers do this to their own movies -- Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Peter Bogdanovich and many others constantly fiddle with the DVD releases of their movies, revising and re-revising classics again and again.

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...wore), he knew it was a good time to be working for his hero. Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Peter Bogdanovich had already matriculated from Corman's de facto film school. "That was definitely in the back of our heads," says Dante,...

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...young generation of film enthusiasts who would become the New Hollywood, including Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola and Woody Allen. Due to growing public interest in films from other countries , specialty...

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...careers. He offered opportunities to Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Ron Howard and James Cameron behind the camera, and Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper and Robert De Niro in front of it. A DVD box set...

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