Hollywood tales

“‘The Conversation’ was an original screenplay written probably in the mid sixties, it’s difficult for me sometimes to place these scripts because usually there is a kind of leapfrog effect in which I write a script, get three quarters through it, decide that it’s terrible, abandon it, and then put it away and forget about it. ‘The Rain People’ I wrote while I was still a UCLA student, and I went through that exact experience… These scripts tend to have some incubation time between the first attempt…”

 — Francis Ford Coppola

H/T to Paul Sanford for pulling that quote from the director’s commentary on The Conversation DVD

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