"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians."
"The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy."
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Source: Francis Ford Coppola: What I've Learned by Stephen Garrett, www.esquire.com. July 7, 2009.
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