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“The Conversation was an original screenplay written probably in the mid-sixties. It’s difficult for me sometimes to place these scripts…
“The Conversation was an original screenplay written probably in the mid-sixties. It’s difficult for me sometimes to place these scripts because usually there is a kind of leapfrog effect in which I write a script, get three-quarters through it, decide that it’s terrible, abandon it, and then put it away and forget about it. The Rain People I wrote while I was still a UCLA student, and I went through that exact experience… These scripts tend to have some incubation time between the first attempt…”
— Francis Ford Coppola
Quote from the director’s commentary on The Conversation DVD. Here is a trailer for the 1974 movie:
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