Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola on Taking Risks

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Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola on Taking Risks

"An essential element of art is risk. If you don't take risks, how are you going to make something really beautiful that hasn't been seen before? …. I always had a good philosophy of risks. The only risk is to waste your life, so that when you die, you say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.'"

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