Coppola also noted that filming of The Conversation had been completed several months before the most revelatory Watergate stories broke in the press.

However, his reputation was restored over the years, and by the time of his death, he and Pressburger were recognised as one of the foremost film partnerships of all time-and cited as a key influence by many noted filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.

Coppola noted that he first noticed Keaton in Lovers and Other Strangers, and cast her because of her reputation for eccentricity that he wanted her to bring to the role ( Keaton claims that at the time she was commonly referred to as " the kooky actress " of the film industry ).

Francis Ford Coppola once noted that Storaro was the only man he ever knew that could fall off a ladder in a white suit, into the mud, and not get dirty.

He is noted for his choice of forceful characters such as Charlotte Gainsbourg, Courtney Love, Hilary Swank, Salma Hayek, Björk, Sofia Coppola, Robert Mitchum and Javier Bardem.

In the director's commentary on the DVD edition of the film ( released in 2002 ), Coppola states that this film was the first major motion picture to use " Part II " in its title.

On the DVD commentary, Coppola says he was shocked to learn that the film utilized the very same surveillance and wire-tapping equipment that members of the Nixon Administration used to spy on political opponents prior to the Watergate scandal.

Coppola discusses his decision to make this the first major motion picture to use " Part II " in its title in the director's commentary on the DVD edition of the film released in 2002.

The Godfather DVD Collection was released on October 9, 2001 in a package that contained all three films — each with a commentary track by Coppola — and a bonus disc that featured a 73-minute documentary from 1991 entitled The Godfather Family: A Look Inside and other miscellany about the film: the additional scenes originally contained in The Godfather Saga ; Francis Coppola's Notebook ( a look inside a notebook the director kept with him at all times during the production of the film ); rehearsal footage ; a promotional featurette from 1971 ; and video segments on Gordon Willis's cinematography, Nino Rota's and Carmine Coppola's music, the director, the locations and Mario Puzo's screenplays.

After a careful restoration of the first two movies, The Godfather movies were released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on September 23, 2008, under the title The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration.

While writing the screenplay of the thriller film The Conversation ( 1974 ) – also about sound recording – Francis Ford Coppola explained in the DVD commentary to that film that he was inspired by Blow Up.

The DVD version includes a commentary track from both Eleanor and Francis Coppola ( although each was recorded separately ) and a bonus documentary entitled Coda, about Coppola's film Youth Without Youth.

In the DVD audio commentary for The Conversation, director Francis Ford Coppola revealed that Blowup was a major source of inspiration for that film.

The new deluxe edition features the original 1993 album, a second CD containing b-sides, rarities and outtakes and a bonus DVD featuring the album's six original videos plus a rare alternate version of " All I Wanna Do " directed by Roman Coppola.

Katsu left the production, however, before the first day of shooting was over ; in an interview for the Criterion Collection DVD, executive producer Coppola states that Katsu angered Kurosawa by arriving with his own camera crew to record Kurosawa's filmmaking methods.

Paramount Home Video released Tucker: The Man and His Dream on DVD in October 2000, which included audio commentary by Coppola, the 1948 promotional film Tucker: The Man and the Car ( with optional commentary by Coppola ), as well as a making-of featurette, Under the Hood: Making Tucker.

However, on The Godfather Part IIIs DVD commentary, Coppola explains that both he and Puzo had envisioned a fourth part to the saga, one storyline of which would deal with Vincent's reign as head of the Corleone family.

Coppola also notes on the commentary that Hackman considers this one of his favorite performances.

( Coppola reveals in his audio commentary that Michael was seen drinking a lot of water in the first two films — subtle hints that he was a diabetic.

Coppola stated in the film's commentary that Duvall demanded the same salary as Al Pacino ( who portrayed Michael Corleone ).

: Audio commentary with Roman Coppola

The Conversation is a 1974 American psychological thriller film written, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman.

Coppola says that Hackman was at the time an outgoing and approachable person who preferred casual clothes, whereas Caul was meant to be a socially awkward loner who wore a rain coat and out-of-style glasses.

A film documentary and tribute about Cazale, titled I Knew It Was You, was an entry at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and featured interviews with Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Francis Ford Coppola and Sidney Lumet.

Coppola had polio as a boy, leaving him bedridden for large periods of his childhood and allowing him to indulge his imagination with homemade puppet theater productions.

It was written, directed and initially produced by Coppola himself, though as the movie advanced, he fell short of his budget and the studio had to underwrite the remainder of the movie.

In 1969, Coppola took it upon himself to subvert the studio system which he felt had stifled his visions, intending to produce mainstream pictures to finance off-beat projects and give first-time directors their chance to direct.

Coppola and North had to tone down Patton's actual language to avoid an R rating ; in the opening monologue, the word " fornicating " replaced " fucking " when criticizing the The Saturday Evening Post.

However, Coppola had to face a lot of difficulties while filming The Godfather.

According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".

After pleading with the executives, Coppola was allowed to cast Brando only if he appeared in the film for much less salary than his previous films, perform a screen-test, and put up a bond saying that he would not cause a delay in the production ( as he had done on previous film sets ).

Before production of the film began, Coppola went to his mentor Roger Corman for advice about shooting in the Philippines, since Corman had filmed several pictures there.

After filming Apocalypse Now, Coppola famously stated: " We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.

Coppola credited his inspiration for making the film to a suggestion from middle school students who had read the novel.

A biopic based on the life of Preston Tucker and his attempt to produce and market the Tucker ' 48, Coppola had originally conceived the project as a musical with Marlon Brando after the release of The Godfather Part II.

Warner demanded that Coppola repay the $ 300, 000 they had loaned him for the Zoetrope studio, and insisted on cutting five minutes from the film.

Coppola stated that The Godfather Part IV was never made as Mario Puzo died before they had a chance to write the film.

They had three children: Sofia Coppola, Roman Coppola and Gian-Carlo Coppola.

Coppola was electrified by his characterization as the head of a crime family, but he had to fight the studio in order to cast the temperamental actor.

Thomas declined the role and urged the studio to cast Brando at the behest of Coppola and others who had witnessed the screen test.

On June 26, 1999, Jonze married director Sofia Coppola, whom he had first met in 1992.

In August 1980, Waits married Kathleen Brennan, a screenwriter, whom he had met while working on the set of the Francis Ford Coppola movie One from the Heart.

Murch had more or less a free hand during the editing process, since Coppola was already working on The Godfather Part II at the time.

Production nearly ended before it began when Pacino's lawyers told Coppola that he had grave misgivings with the script and wasn't coming.