Coppola -- You're a Big Boy Now!

From article on Francis Ford Coppola's new plan (at age 67) for himself....

''It's a very big change of the type of career that I had before. I always wanted to be a filmmaker who wrote his own original material,'' he says, recalling his earlier movies ''The Conversation'' (1974) and ''The Rain People'' (1969).

Coppola now hopes to write and direct films at the pace of Woody Allen -- something he can finance partly because of the success of his wine business.

''I view this as the career I always wished I could have,'' Coppola says. ''Now, I'm in a place where I can be my own patron.''