Hi, it's Alice. There are lots of questions swirling about what will happen to the movie business in the wake of COVID.

I have been fantasizing, as have a lot of people, about the day

we can go to a theater, sit back without a mask to eat a bucket of popcorn, drink a much too big soda, and gaze up at a huge screen in the company of strangers with no interruptions.

But has the pandemic killed the theaters? I don't have that crystal ball, but I do know people will always make movies as long as there are stories to tell. This episode is a tribute to the

movie makers featuring some of the greatest of all time.

Cinema movies and magic have always been closely associated because the very earliest people who made film were magicians and one of the aspects of it was the idea of an illusion, a magical illusion in the early days of movies.

That's Francis Ford Coppola.

He was interviewed by the Academy of Achievement in the mid-1990s.

But we're going to guild the Lily here with even more movie royalty, because on a trip

through the Academy's Archives, I pulled out an interview with Robert Zamechis and excerpts of talks by Martin Scorsese and Robert

DeNiro. All four of these men made generation defining films and they're all still at it connected by a love of storytelling

craft and an artistic courage of cinematic proportions their personal journeys and their frank thoughts about working in film may

surprise you. This is what it takes, a podcast about passion, vision, and perseverance

from the Academy of Achievement.

I'm Alice Winkler.

Madame, this child is gifted.

And I heard that enough that I started to believe it.

If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity, and you don't take it, you may never have another job.

It all was so clear. It was just like the picture started to form itself.

There was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth,

darkness over light, death over life.

Every day I wake up and decide.

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