passion project. I hate that phrase. You don't like passion project? No because all directing is a passion project.

It is. You may be doing it for money, but when you're down to actually working at you're doing out of love and passion for the cinema.

All directing is a passion project, I think.

Prepare your ears humans.

Happy, sad, confused begins now.

I'm Josh Harrowitz and today on happy, sad, confused,

if you've been watching or listening to this podcast for the last decade and I have to introduce this man and give the resume of Francis Ford Coppola, I don't know what to say to you.

He is a true Maverick, he is a true legend. It is a true honor today to talk about Megalopolis in your career, sir.

Thank you so much for the time.

Well, thank you for seeing the film and in fact seeing the film twice you've just told me, which of course, I feel I, I find that last night seeing it really for the first time, straight through in IMAX was like a new experience.

I wasn't planning to stay after that little conversation

with the Nero and Spike.

I was planning to leave, but I got hooked and I watched the whole movie.

These are the great films that demand

conversation and thoughts and this is one of them. That would be good. So you had you had

something about premiere last night you've been to many premieres over your career.

Is there a most memorable premiere in your career,

one where you felt the world weighing down on you

or excitement or fear?

It was the first time Godfather 2 was shown in San Francisco and the audience hated it.

But they hated everything about it.

They went on and on.

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