If the 1970s is arguably regarded as the golden age of cinema, the Francis Ford Coppola is one of its shiniest beacons, thanks to the two Godfather movies, The Conversation, and his most ambitious project, Apocalypse Now. His latest works (Youth Without Youth, Tetro) have not reached similar heights.

“My career is very bizarre,” says Coppola during a Toronto Film Festival press conference to promote his new movie Twixt.  “I’m very honored, my people are very kind to me, now that I’m older, they are generous with me.  But the truth of the matter is throughout my career I failed my way upwards.  I was always in a dismal crisis.  I was always getting bad reviews.  I was always trying to figure out how was I going to support my family.”

Twixt, which originated from a dream Coppola had during a stay in Istanbul, centers on a struggling writer (Val Kilmer) who, upon visiting a small town on a book tour, is haunted by the ghost of a murdered girl (Elle Fanning).

Click on the media bar to hear the filmmaker explain why sometimes it takes 30 years to properly critique a film: 

Coppola also talks about why another Godfather installment is out of the question:

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