“When I make a movie I always have to have a theme, preferably in one word that I can - when I made The Conversation the theme was privacy. When I made The Godfather the theme was succession.
And I taught my children to try to know what that big theme is because…you have to answer so many questions every day, like should she have long hair or short hair? Should she wear a dress or a skirt? Should he have a car or should it be a bicycle? And you know the answer so you just fire them off. But once in a while you don’t know the answer. And that’s when you say, well, what is the theme?
I remember in The Conversation when we went picking sort of trench coats for the character that Gene Hackman - and I didn’t know which one. I didn’t want him to look too much like a detective. He wasn’t really a detective. And then I said to myself, well, what’s the theme? And I said privacy. So there was one coat that was a plastic coat that you could see through. So I chose that.”
“[…] as the film goes along, the audience goes with it because you are constantly giving them the same lines they’ve already heard, yet as they learn a little bit more about the situation they will interpret things differently. that was the original idea.”
– the making of the conversation. an interview with francis ford coppola by brian de palma
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