Francis Ford Coppola interview (1994)

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[@A_M_P_]

I could listen to Coppola's cool and informative voice for hours.

[@EphemeralProductions]

one of the most articulate and "cool to listen to" directors of the modern days, to me. :)

[@aboolaylaa1984]

I love his passion

[@Karl_95]

Yes i been binge watching his interviews hes great.

[@bobbyrizzo3002]

I love his intellect and art on film. He changed the world with art.. ty Francis

[@highvoltagemedia7150]

Brilliant filmmaker. He was the king of the 1970s. Wrote Patton, The Great Gatsby and wrote and directed The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now. Absolutely unbelievable streak!

[@stuartmorris6299]

You think he wrote the godfather?

[@isabeamon1190]

@@stuartmorris6299 He cowrote the script. That is not a thought, but rather a fact.

[@stuartmorris6299]

@@isabeamon1190 so he didn't write it? Respond yes or no and be honest, I dare you. I bet you can't.

[@stuartmorris6299]

@@isabeamon1190 a thought can also be a fact btw.

[@isabeamon1190]

@@stuartmorris6299 It is a fact that he and Mario Puzo cowrote the script of the film. Mario Puzo wrote the novel. I think this is well known. There is actually no debate on any of this, so I don't understand your confusion.

[@regdwight235]

I think Francis started to get pissed towards the end with the sheet inanity of Roses interview. I don't get Roses angle as if the director has to explain himself and his frankly rude dismissal of Cotton Club. Francis Ford Coppola is an absolute legend .

[@stephaniedavies1354]

i love Coppola’s voice...can’t get enough of listening to his unique timbre_ geez and his sense of self. so true to himself _ i feel inspired when i listen to his stories, his struggles🌷🌹thank you charlie for [trying] to giving him time to finish his thoughts🌀👏👏👏#loveyoufrancis

[@burnttoasttours8712]

how Rose EVER became an interviewer......is BEYOND fathom!

[@WinnipegTouristDept]

That story involves biz-industry Jews' mutilated knobs getting serviced

[@house684]

Science genius, Hollywood boy wonder, wine magnet. Young Coppola was a romantic and a gambler, he'd throw everything he had into his movies.

[@michaelattwell7502]

What a great man. No wonder he gave us some of the all-time classics in cinema history. His intelligence and articulacy shine through and help to explain his exceptional achievements.

[@liamarunbennett8282]

if you're ever feeling discouraged watch charlie rose. because if someone that out of his depths can be a successful interviewer with his own tv show then anything is possible

[@apseudonym]

I needed that, thank you.

[@nicholasfox966]

Best comment ever.

[@bettyjane6684]

Agreed!! Yuck!

[@danwroy]

...what?

[@rext8949]

Colossal vanity riding on ignorance.

[@StefFlix]

Thumb down for Rose's interview prowess. Multiple thumbs up for Coppola's elegance while enduring it.

[@martinlehfeldt6916]

Coppala is an amazing person, and film maker. Greatness.

[@_scabs6669]

Coppola says here that his big dream was to write and direct, and he always felt like he was failing even with the Godfather and Apocalypse because they were not original. This makes me even more excited for Megalopolis, written and directed by the king, I am really stoked and so glad that it's in my generation!

[@Guitfiddlejase]

I used to say that I liked Charlie Rose. I can not believe what I am witnessing here...talking to Coppola like that! The balls on this guy! God Bless Coppola here...a gentleman

[@A_M_P_]

You're right. I like to see an interviewer who asks tough questions but when Rose asks Coppola "Was that the worst decision of your life" my jaw dropped.

[@EphemeralProductions]

He’s like that with MANY of his interviewees. I’ve never liked his interviewing style.

[@JohnWesleyDowney]

Not a fan of Charlie, I kept wanting to tell him to shut up and let Francis talk.

[@prestigeproductionsaustral1171]

After a tough interview once, I reprimanded the interviewer say geez! You wanna just tear me to shreds? He said that’s my job! Great Interview! I have to ask the wrong question to make you give the right answer. That way you look good and I look like an arsehole! I always remind myself this when seeing people handle such nuisances such as these! I just feel sad that anyone should have to continually have to defend themself from attacks. You sense the sadness and weariness

[@rext8949]

Poor Charlie seemed to want to validate himself by being unnecessarily aggressive with Francis. Ended looking pathetic.

[@MarcGoudreau]

I could listen to this man all day. What a great conversationalist :)

[@ikmarchini]

Coppola is the Mascagni of film - "I was crowned before I became King". Rose could not be any more clumsy asking disrespectful questions, putting words in Coppola's mouth, and then cutting him off mid-sentence so he could interject even more of his inanities.

[@VtRD]

Francis is what I call a Renaissance man--so many interests, and he is good at all of them. He finally received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this week.

[@chrisdell5679]

Do you consider Welles one as well?

[@MrAitraining]

I'm glad he mentioned "tucker". I totally forgot how good that was and it's never on TV. Need to find that again.

[@suze816]

I Almost didn't finish watching this because I got SO tired of Rose interrupting Francis Ford Coppola.. again and again. But Coppola kept his cool demeanor the whole time and that was awesome.

[@beerus101]

Coppola talks almost completely uninterrupted for 10 minutes or more within this interview. It's a conversation, people tend to want to be part of them, especially when it's your job. Next time you're talking with your friend about something you both enjoy, try and sit there without any input for 10 minutes and see how you BOTH fare.

[@buffobison3099]

@@beerus101this is an interview, it’s different from a conversation. People aren’t here to hear what Charlie Rose thinks

[@YouriCarma]

'Apocalypse Now' is the best film made to date in my opinion and a Big Classic needless to say.

[@francissookraj3202]

What a brilliant and talented director and writer. The Godfather 1&2 are masterpieces both flawless in filmmaking.

[@apseudonym]

wow, charlie rose is showing his true colors in this interview. he seems to derive a lot of pleasure from tearing coppola down.

[@DS8379]

32:25..he predicts Quentin Tarantino as the next thing for Cinema! Right on Francis!

[@charleswinokoor6023]

I like how Coppola doesn’t take the bait from Rose and laugh at something that’s not really all that funny.

[@IndigENous-uk3si]

I agree- Mr Coppola is honest, sincere & not phony - he’s the real thing!

[@WilliBond0007]

Am I the only one who wants to punch/slap Rose for consistently interrupting someone far more intelligent than himself. 36:00 ... and many of us think Spielberg's work doesn't hold a candle to Coppola's

[@Minotauro_di_Chieti]

@Bob Jones Amen bro!!!

[@petarticinovic2710]

@Bob Jones The Godfather consistently tops best of lists for a reason.

[@notmytruthTHEtruth]

@Bob Jones You're crazy. Coppola has made The Conversation, The Godfather, The Rain People, Apocalypse Now & Rumble Fish. Spielberg has made great stuff too but damn.

[@ilikelines7271]

Schindler's List is an amazing film, and maybe can be held by some of Coppola's work, but anything else doesn't come close. Especially Saving Private Ryan. That film in no way demonstrates the amount of subtleness and (most importantly) restraint that Apocalypse Now gives.

[@waynej2608]

@@ilikelines7271 I agree. Schindler's List was worthy, but none of the rest meet the level of Coppola's artistry. Both talented filmmakers, obviously. I just think that Francis was the real visionary, of that group. Imho.

[@colleencupido5125]

On a more personal aside, Francis Ford Coppola as an Italian is all over this interview- from his comment that we had wine 🍷 ( and Pizza) regularly on the table before any others to Francis' comment about what the Italian male is permitted to show openly and his literally getting under the bed over negative comments about Godfather II. My father was always proud of his Irishness- but I was born in SF and.have lived in California all my life. When I married an Italian whose.parents were born in Italy- I was just not prepared for not just a different ethnic outlook- but an Old World European one. We've been married now 18 years so we must be doing something right

[@Elassyahmed]

I absolutely love listening to Coppola speak. You get the sense that is almost always speaking his mind, transparently. Even in the face of some truly obnoxious line of questions from Rose

[@azzouzhassan8721]

mr copola is a generous men

[@blokkka9inety293]

so generous, he gave us Godfather 3...

[@Revolver1981]

@@blokkka9inety293 Godfather 3 can fuck right off. It's embarrassingly bad but yet Andy Garcia was still nominated for an Academy Award.

[@ikmarchini]

Correct. He should have walked out of this 'interview'.

[@andrewattenboroughtwothumb4697]

incredible interview and about Francis Ford Coppola one of my favourite directors and by Charlie rose

[@MarkAS56]

I freaking LOVE his Dracula, always have.

[@theflorgeormix]

Absolute brilliance...Tucker, Bram Strokers Dracula, The Godfather, in his way - obvious Giant and generous

[@pats3071]

"Was it the worst decision of your life" Creating one of cinema's finest achievements? One of the greatest works of art in the last hundred years? What a ridiculous question, the struggles Coppola went through with Apocalypse Now were all made irrelevant when it was finished, if anything those struggles added to the greatness and mythology behind Apocalypse Now. Charlie Rose comes across as more of an idiot than usual here. I do respect Charlie asking why he's not making great films anymore, but Coppola's time for great films is over. Great artists aren't creating masterpieces for their entire lives, they go through periods and in Francis's period he made some of the best films, if not the best of all time. No filmmaker can sustain that level of greatness, the only one to come close is Scorsese and I'd argue even his best films still didn't touch Coppola's.

[@rahimneh]

I think Apocalypse Now Redux is the best movie ever. Cinematography, acting, score, screenplay, directing, cast - everything 10 out of 10.

[@younglord00]

I disagree with what you said about artists not making great works of art throughout their lives. Plenty of filmmakers have been great throughout their careers- I would argue that the quality of the work of directors like Scorsese and Tarantino, just to name a few, has stayed around the same throughout their careers. Coppola is kind of an anomaly in that he made those phenomenal films in the 70s but kind of fell off since then. Although I think his Dracula film is great.

[@odalanizi]

Have you seen the documentary heart of darkness? The behind the scenes of the making of apocalypse now. If you've seen that film and all the things Coppola went through (financially, emotionally, spiritually, etc) then you'd understand why Rose asked him if he regretted it.

[@gabrielbradley6214]

Scorsese comes close...

[@gabrielbradley6214]

Scorsese comes close, the only difference is that Scorcesse’s innovations have become more mainstream than Coppola’s so we don’t notice them when we see them.

[@mrjohnirons]

Francis is an American treasure.

[@noam1121]

charlie rose is so wild... copala is so insightful i hope i get to get to talk to him one day.

[@colleencupido5125]

Wonderful comments from Francis. I remember reading how the great Billy Wilder said the reason he became a director was to get the scripts he wrote On The Screen without getting chopped up to smithereens. And Francis is right that immediate reactions to works Artists-creators might feel their masterpiece is pathetic. Puccini's Manon Lescaut was a colossal hit when first performed. His next 3 Operas 1)La Boheme 2) Tosca and 3) Madame Butterfly Were NOT well received- and now for over 100 years those 3 Operas alone are enormous moneymakers audiences always flock to. When speaking of The Godfather you have mentioned Aeschylus' Oresteia. If mentioned names of films and filmakers of the.past 50 years, where is the depth and specifically philosophical outlook- the "Long Conversation" of why ordinary people act the way they do? Seriously, I am waiting for names of films that hearken to some.of the best drama ever by those Greek guys circa 400 BC? As just one proof of thinking of Francis. as the frontrunner in the racetrack- The Godfather when.it came out made everyone want to be Italian- not with dreams of untold wealth or indulging in sometime violent behavior- but because "family loyalty" so openly displayed in The Godfathers had in large measure disappeared from the average American family by that time

[@michaelpettit3807]

30:51 "I just feel that sooner or later, some- god knows, nineteen year old is going to write a script that's really about life..." Possibly that same year, Harmony Korine at age 19 would sell his screenplay "Kids" to Larry Clark. Making a ground breaking film about just that, life.

[@lilchaos4792]

And then fell off with mediocre films years later

[@stephaniedavies1354]

Solo Flutist for NBC [Radio] during the War years....WOW pure musical brain food while Pops is rehearsing💫

[@Jayla60]

Wow, brilliant interview. Especially the last section about The Godfather.

[@steveconn]

I like walking by his production company 'American Zoetrope' in the old Sentinel building on Columbus Ave. when I'm in San Francisco. Posters from his films in the windows (once saw from a tour bus a taped-up poster for 'Twixt,' that recent Val Kilmer vampire movie he directed, on someone's office wall).

[@michaelangileo2760]

Francis Ford Coppola has a beautiful mind. He, in some way, I feel is very close to God. Blessings to all.

[@veritas6335]

Note Coppola’s response when Rose asks him at the end of the show if he’ll come back. Speaks volumes. .

[@albinpepe9057]

Charlie: "you have a huge appetite." Francis: "......."

[@Revolver1981]

That's right. Fat man Coppola loves Pizza's.

[@cmknox777]

Charlie Rose is a fucking asshole.

[@strutherhill]

Have to agree with the criticisms of Rose's intrusive, self-aggrandising questions. Coppola shows great restraint!

[@amazilkin]

Charlie Rose made excellent job. Not every interview should be laudatory. He made in provocative way and it’s pays off because Coppola said some exceptional things here. It is great!

[@stephenszklarski5446]

Francis Ford Coppola is a brilliant filmmaker

[@generalstoaschicken]

Jesus Christ I hate how interviewers think what they have to say is more important than the person they're interviewing. It's almost too enraging to listen to this and I really want to hear what Francis Ford Coppola has to say.

[@willettej7988]

I’m highly offended at your use of Almighty God’s name in your comment. You may not be a Christian, but would you use your mother’s name as a curse word? I’m sorry you don’t know the Truth. Someday, you will.

[@generalstoaschicken]

@@willettej7988 haha! Jesus fucking christ, if God were really that petty we're all fucked. That's completely missing the point of taking the lord's name in vain, which literally includes doing things like killing or going to war in the name of God. But if that's something that offends you, I'm sorry that you're so puny minded and let me just say one more time, Jesus fucking Christ God damn! 🤣🤣 Sorry, that was petty of me, but not nearly as much as whatever the thing is you pray to

[@generalstoaschicken]

@@willettej7988 just FYI, I messaged all three of my kids after reading this message this morning (and giggling most of my way to work because it was so utterly silly), just to tell them that they unequivocally have my permission to use my name as a curse word if they ever want to. I think it would be hilarious and I would be honored. And I'm pretty sure my parents would absolutely find that amusing, were they still alive, but in the meantime I tried it out a few times and it works pretty good! "Martin fucking Smith that hurt!!! Holy Janis B Smith, did you see that???"🤣🤣 I guess I'm a better god than the one you worship! Or a parent at least.... I'm much less petty anyway. Imagine being so threatened by something so dumb and insignificant

[@ashleyheath1807]

"Imagine being so threatened by something so dumb & insignificant" could easily apply to your incredibly long-winded comment too. I'm not religious, but I find people who challenge others faith to be truly awful!!

[@generalstoaschicken]

@@ashleyheath1807 🥺

[@keepmewierd]

36:23 is when he starts to think of how he's going to murder Charlie lol

[@ikmarchini]

Meglio da il cornuto che uccide.

[@kailash8558]

🤣🤣🤣

[@antarcticorb9197]

Pure genius.

[@EverdeenM]

I wonder why Charlie was patronising towards Francis. It seems like he wanted him to set in front of him and state his failures as it's something new. Only Francis Ford Coppola whose failure in the eyes of some people, is Apocalypse now. If I could fail like that, I'd consider myself the luckiest person in the world. Granted his work in the early age was by far better than anything he made recently, but that's how good he is, he made 3 films that no one could ever top, even himself. That's a sign of a true artist.

[@antarcticorb9197]

Tremendous balls...putting everything on the line to make a film where maybe one in ten films make their money back. At that time the videocassette market didn't really exist..only theatrical and TV and overseas sales were viable income streams.

[@tiamatxvxianash9202]

An incredibly gripping interview between two giants of their respective professions. Indeed as Mr. Rose touched on at the 18 min mark, "Hearts of Darkness, A filmmakers Apocalypse"; which is the documentaries name, is a "must see"

[@DSnake655]

Aside from the eventual really bad stuff, what's people's problems in these comment sections with Rose as an interviewer? Sometimes I forget he's even there! Thanks so much, Manufacturing Intellect.

[@HomeAtLast501]

I accidentally discovered "The Rain People" on KZbin a number of years ago. It was fantastic.

[@CammysCandyReviews]

Good questions, interesting answers, but Charlie Rose is gradually irritating Coppola. There's only so much you can ask till you just get too far.

[@IndigENous-uk3si]

Great that Coppola has the courage & determination to speak his honest views & not pander to the masses

[@terencewinters2154]

The conversation is a very closed and suspense filled almost claustrophobic paranoid film . Still great.

[@BookClubDisaster]

Oh for a minute I thought you were taking about this conversation.....

[@jackrenglish]

I WAS LOCATION MGR ON GF, PT 2", & "APOCALYPSE NOW", & OTHER HITS....JACK..WEST HOLLYWOOD....6/9/2019...CRAZY TIMES..JE

[@roymanyara1430]

Let the man speak, we want his wisdom.

[@terencewinters2154]

Brilliant guy.

[@Sophie_kent]

Wow, 52:22 he mentions how critics and people will try to bring down Oliver Stone....he was right..

[@stephaniestanley8041]

So talented an artist

[@ericmyers3561]

I like how Charlie got everything wrong about Coppola’s childhood.

[@rext8949]

Charlie is an ignorant hack who is not fit to interact with intellectuals.

[@edub9930]

He was fumbling so bad 😱 wow howd he ever manage to get his own show. He literally had papers right before him

[@MrAitraining]

It's great when Charlie gets facts wrong. Since he's such a pretentious gabber.

[@KenDanieli]

Rose is such a douchebag

[@Revolver1981]

@@KenDanieli The man's suspended at the moment I believe because he's a sick bastard sex offender.🤬

[@vitalygoji]

He keeps on interrupting Copola, very frustrating. What a jerk

[@BookClubDisaster]

Too busy creeping on interns to do his homework.

[@terencewinters2154]

Artistic freedom = zoetrope . What hes foundout however is money and distribution are constraining that freedom regardless if hes in la or San Francisco.

[@neilcrowesongs9768]

the worst of charlie rose on display here. sloppy, ungracious, going on attack in an ambush kind of way in a near hysterical fashion, and laughing in a kind of mocking way to some answers. some nerve. coppola did well to not walk off set as he had the right to do.

[@08CARIB]

Bingo! Charlie was being ungracious from his opening when he mentioned the bankruptcy and on and on. Coppola was very patient with Charlie

[@Revolver1981]

@@08CARIB Charlie's the most hated bastard on TV. Now he's thankfully gone.

[@waynej2608]

Yes, what's the deal with Rose? I usually think he does alright, but no much here, with Coppola, of all people. A bit condescending, I thought.

[@piranha5506]

Wayne J Coppola was having trouble with movies in the 90es. His most recent movies had been flops. That’s why.

[@jjroseknows777]

He tops this with is interview of Vonnegut...Charlie at his bully worst!

[@Tyrell_Corp2019]

I had to laugh. "What's his name... Brian DePalma".

[@kingking10101]

😂😂 Time stamp?!

[@bettyveronica5111]

There were too many moments that were very uncomfortable; like a grilling. I felt badly for Mr. Coppola, a great director and gentleman. I respect him even more now after listening to him stay true to himself and answer honestly, not what the interviewer tried to make him answer. I agree with Coppola about "The Cotton Club". And "The Outsiders" is the movie I love and know him for. We read the book in school Sophomore year, 3 years ago.

[@OsmanGaziPasha]

Thank you

[@steveconn]

"He came to work in Tchaikovsky's orchestra?" Yes, Charlie, in the 1940's Coppola's father went to work for a Russian conductor who had been dead for fifty years. Rose has a prestigious talk-show but is often such a sloppy interviewer (He's also fixated on Coppola's early career. goddamn, man, Cotton Club is not a giant epic like the others, and should be judged on its own merits. Get off his case).

[@bender844]

Knowing everything about the interviewee has nothing to do with being a good interviewer.

[@steveconn]

bender844 Yet getting centuries right is always helpful.

[@benjaminmirt5029]

me, personally, i dont really mind. the quality is how naturaly charlie meets the people and him as a person and many other things (get off his case ) ;)

[@steveconn]

Benjamin Mirt Any fool on the street can do that. If you have an audience of millions do some fucking research for your questions.

[@dvalentine8947]

Charlie is a prick, I can't stand him. By the way, Copolla and Lucas are into artsy films, they're not into Blockbuster. They like to do personal film and that is okay.

[@marcusakers7245]

I feel an odd closeness with the Coppola family. I hail from a defunct Italian American family from the Detroit area, and I just feel like I know these people.

[@theartwarrior]

"people think that Apocalypse Now is 2/3 brilliant..." LOL

[@Sssatyzo]

It’s actually right it was considered 2/3 brilliant go check siskel and Ebert siskel said that and many critics at the time of the release said that rose isn’t lying here

[@BookClubDisaster]

@@Sssatyzo The ending is brilliant too. I think people were just taken aback by Brando's performance. He seemed half asleep. But I think that was intentional. Trying to portray a guy who had grown exhausted by life.

[@MrAitraining]

@@BookClubDisaster if you watch "hearts of darkness", the documentary about apocalypse now you'll see francis pretty frustrated by Marlon Brando. Brando came out of shape, demanded a huge weekly fee and he wasn't prepared. They had to improvise a lot with his part

[@nevengrujic6518]

Feel like he's talking about Megalopolis 33 minutes in.

[@spiroskoufos5412]

GREAT!

[@terencewinters2154]

Conrad s novel is an element of Sheehan's travel up the Mekong though the novel is set in africa and probably the Congo. But the sense of the darkness or cafard is common to both.

[@Custardpie174]

😂😂.....Francis was swearing in the limo after this one....

[@veritas6335]

Rose bases his remarks on rumor and gossip and what a few shallow, airhead, wannabe critics say and frames his questions as "many people say...." which is stupid and offensive. The value of films is in how much the viewers love them and how well they last. No artist owes it to the world to do anything, much less "grow." His only obligation is to himself and to create art. And as to what producers think, God help us all. Very few of them knows a god damn thing. If studios had their way, there would be no good films. They all trashed Casablanca when it came out in 1942. Studios and most producers only think in dollars and their own unevolved and generally bad taste. People who are not artists never understand artists. Art is a process. A work of art, any art, whether it is music, literature, dance, painting, sculpture, theater or cinema, evolves through hard work and constant revision and refinement until it is honed to, hopefully, perfection. Thank God for Coppola. He's given us GREAT movies. Here's hoping for another one.

[@tr7b410]

The use of LRRP-Long Range Recon Patrol soldiers in the Vietnam War that never returned & whose missions were CIA directed is the footnote to Coppala,s hubris for this movie. He knew their great loss of life & the pathos behind their suicide missions.Enter=Apocalypse NOW. Enter the doped up/altered reality of the special mission sailors who went against the grain of sacrifice to snuff out a protagonist against his superior,s which Col Kurst represented.

[@breezybhris4223]

Can you expound on this?

[@tr7b410]

@@breezybhris4223 An LRRP commander gone rogue.

[@_scabs6669]

Charlie Rose always plays the devil's advocate. But personally, I love a lot of Coppola's later work, post 70's anyway. I thought Cotton Club and One From the Heart were wonderful pictures in their own rights. I'm so grateful to MUBI for introducing me to them.

[@benwherlock9869]

2019. Guardian 5* review of The Cotton Club! 😄

[@faustusclarke5158]

50:15 Francis needs to direct Bioshock! :D

[@GumercindoRunol]

It drives me crazy that the interviewer won’t stop interrupting him all the time and don’t let him finish so it is a constant changing of themes that Coppola is talking about, but for the rest, great interview(when Coppola is allowed to speak hahaha)

[@featheredmusic]

amazing

[@swymaj02]

11:42 Rhats something, cos I'm studying Film and TV in uni at the moment. But I've been in plays for secondary school and operas for my London Borough of Lewisham. I'm also part of the uni's Performing Arts society so......

[@nathanchin2483]

Last 6 minutes most manically revelatory

[@MikeOxymorons]

Sometimes Charlie did interrupt Coppola and while he was in the middle of answering. bc of the interruptions we missed some great content, I think.

[@MrHopeTelevision]

19:38 "what's his name Brian Depalma" burnnnn

[@IndigENous-uk3si]

Listening to Mr Coppola’s non-defensive manner in replying to the questions fired at him by Mr Rose is psychologically helpful to me as I’d have been angry & defensive in my replies! So I’m learning!

[@1mudder]

according to IMDB this interview was on August 16th 1996

[@ThatGirlAafia]

Makes sense, I reckon he is promoting Jack (1996)

[@ThatGirlAafia]

Makes sense. I reckon he is promoting Jack (1996)

[@gocsa]

No, this was January of 1994, here on the official Charlie Rose website: charlierose.com/videos/17691 The one you mention was indeed promoting Jack in 1996, here: charlierose.com/videos/21953

[@1mudder]

@@gocsa thankyou!

[@elid377]

My guess is that Coppola never returned to this show to continue the interview amd i dony blame him

[@aleksandarpesic1412]

Yeah 100 percent. He was very gracious throughout unlike Charlie Rose. In the end it's like saying I will see you again to a person you know casually but you know you won't be back.

[@bigjump2307]

Would be nice if FFC ever got to finish a thought. Charlie has more talking time than the legend himself.

[@shannonsmith9060]

Love him....

[@amirrahnama8974]

I think Ford Coppola is irritated because Charlie Rose is talking honestly about his mistakes or kinda work he made that didn't live up to his masterpieces (namely God Father I, II, Apocalypse Now, Dracula). It's understandable that when you talk about your life, you might get irritated or feel emotional. Although, Rose is a bit excited so he keeps changing subject, too.

[@justinkerrigan4864]

Francis Ford Coppola e un dio del cinema I guess they don't do indie renaissance like that anymore

[@danielledriscoll128]

Good thing Coppola as a Director has a thick skin. Rose claimed he did research for the interview, obviously not the right research. I remember reading bad review of Godfather 2 in local paper. Francis was smart to point out his most acclaimed movies had mixed reviews at the time. Once successful the same movie’s reviews become accolades. Rose failed to ask or tap into the fact that Francis did NOT enjoy making Godfather, was miserable trying to fight for every inch. Rose was quite the bully, by taunting him with where is your next big film? Most Directors would say their next labor of love film is their next big film. Odd Rose never included The Outsiders among Coppola’s greats. That one launched many a career, and spoke about relationships as Francis stated was his interest in making films. Agree with others, that Rose did not have an interest in any response not fitiing his narrative. So much missed in discussing Apocalypse good and bad. An SNL skit about it, could have been brought in to lighten the discussion. Tucker, Cotten Club, Dracula were all reasonable successes yet Rose did not delve into them. Or Peggy Sue. Odd interview.

[@08CARIB]

Charlie Rose is awful in this interview!

[@pats3071]

In this interview?

[@kristinamnatsakanyan.]

He was also awful when interviewing Sofia Coppola

[@claumeister1]

He's awful in every interview. The only reason to watch his show was the fantastic guests he was able to get, if he managed to shut up and let them talk. He clearly always had an agenda of what HE wanted to say, which is death to the interview process where you ought to follow the guest's lead in bringing out fascinating material that only comes up spontaneously as they tell THEIR story. Sometimes it would take him 5 minutes to ask a question b/c he used the "questions" to display his great "wisdom" and inside "knowledge" of the famous guest's world, despite that wisdom and knowledge being laughably wrong or amateurish. Contrast this to Dick Cavett in the 70s who could be interesting and witty in a conversational format, but who also sensed when the guest was opening up about something fascinating, and allow the guest to talk as long as the golden material lasted. He did a double interview with Katherine Hepburn, who was famously reclusive, but talked about her life with barely a question from Cavett for 2 hours. When someone like that opens up, you get out of the way.

[@BookClubDisaster]

@@claumeister1 Agreed. I used to watch Rose's show but only for the guests. And Dick Cavett was a million times smarter and funnier than Charlie Rose. Rose was an empty suit who looked the part.

[@IndigENous-uk3si]

Charlie Rose is a Duke University Graduate Lawyer so…

[@alexandercahoulan6583]

Coppola was pissed during this interview. Really wish we heard the rest of his Apocalypse story. Rose has a way of aggravating guests. Cuts them off, bounces around.

[@christinacascadilla4473]

That question about “failure to grow” could have been worded so much better. Charlie Rose shouldn’t have been cancelled for opening his robe, he should have been cancelled because he was a lazy interviewer. Watch the interview when he had David Foster Wallace, Johnathan Franzen and Mark Leyner on all at the same time. The questions he asked didn’t even make sense.

[@HallsteinI]

I can't believe Rose's approach to interviewing Coppola in this interview. Harping on about Godfather and putting him down like that.