Director Francis Ford Coppola Keeps His Dream Alive

<p>Director Francis Ford Coppola doesn&rsquo;t just want to <em>make </em>movies. He wants to <em>change</em> them. This was true in 1969 when he co-founded Zoetrope Studios with George Lucas, and it remains true today.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Watch the video of our conversation <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKqETNujSI&amp;t=1877s">on YouTube</a>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>We return to our talk with Coppola upon the anniversary of his modern-day Roman epic fable <a href="https://www.megalopolis.movie/"><em>Megalopolis</em></a>, discussing his decades-long process developing the film (6:16) and the inspiration he&rsquo;s taken from Georges M&eacute;li&egrave;s (17:00) and Jacques Tati (19:07). Then, he reflects on the origin of how he became &lsquo;Francis Ford Coppola&rsquo; (23:07), the irrepressible spirit he forged in childhood (26:34), and where he sees himself in films like <em>The Godfather </em>(33:17), <em>Apocalypse Now </em>(35:51), and <em>Gardens of Stone </em>(36:10).<...