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When A Movie Is About To Come Out On Its Initial Debut, There Are A Lot Of People Involved - The Financiers, The Studio And The Producers And Also, Many Times, The Foreign Distributors. So It Is A Time Of Tremendous Pressure And Uncertainty.

-Francis Ford Coppola

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When A Movie Is About To Come

Francis Ford Coppola

When A Movie Is About To Come Out On Its Initial Debut, There Are A Lot Of People Involved - The Financiers, The Studio And The Producers And Also, Many Times, The Foreign Distributors. So It Is A Time Of Tremendous Pressure And Uncertainty.

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