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The 70-year-old Godfather director told thelondonpaper that he still enjoys being a filmmaker despite the setbacks he had experienced in his career.
Coppola said: "I should walk away from it, but I like it too much, so I can't. I don't do this so I can make money. I don't do this so I get praise, I don't do this so I can meet girls. I do it because filmmaking itself is beautiful."
Regarding the mixed critical response to his 1979 movie Apocalypse Now on release, he added: "I learned that a guy could go from the success of The Godfather to making a film about Vietnam and no-one would touch it.
"He would then be damned by Variety for having done this as though it's absurd, and yet everybody would applaud Superman, a man in a silly suit. I learned that we live in a world of incredible contradictions that everyone accepts."
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