Well, welcome to the podcast once again, and I'm very excited to bring on Francis Ford Coppola.

Great to see it. Great to meet you.

You for the invitation. I'm a huge fan. I guess everyone is.

Not everyone, but... Well, everyone I know is. And I had a thought while I was driving over here.

You know, I have twins. And my son is named Santino or Sunny, which my my wife insisted after Sonny Corleone.

And then I realized my daughter, her name is Natalia.

And then I realized your sister is Talia Shire, right?

Is she Natalia?

No.

My mother was Italia, which of course is Italy.

And she then shortened her name to be Italia for her daughter.

Oh, so it's not a Natalia.

That's from Italy.

I see.

And we should talk about the new movie and then we'll get into all sorts of other things because I am excited.

Tetra is the new movie. Vincent Gallo stars in it. You wrote, you direct.

This is your first original screenplay since The Conversation in 74?

That's right.

So 35 years? Wow. It's a long time. It's a very long time, especially since that was my original

dream, was to be able to write stories and write scripts and then make them into movies.

And what happened? Just the directing took off? The Godfather happened, you know? That was a

project that we, that I took because we were broken and we had nothing to keep

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