by Iain Blair

Got to hang out with Francis Ford Coppola, a true legend of modern cinema, at The Four Seasons. He was in LA to talk about his new movie,“Youth Without Youth.” A friend cut neg on it and told me she was paid in wine! So I asked him, “Is it true that you financed the film with your wine?” He said, “Yes, I financed it with my own money, which is only because I have a big wine company. At leastI gave them something of value. Dollars aren’t very valuable anymore!” He said he was very happy self-financing it and having the control. “Also you save alot of money. There are many things you do when you produce a film that you only do because the banks say you’re required to; you have to give them the script, you have to insure the production against the fact that you may die and never finish it and on and on. So I’ve found that not only can I work much faster when I wasn’t waiting for an answer, but you save money on a production when you’re able to just put up the dough yourself.”

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