"All that matters is that you find a way to put the puck in the net. It doesn't matter how. I learned that from Mario."

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I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.

— Francis Ford Coppola