"The shoot itself was a nightmare. “My history with The Godfather was very much the history of someone in trouble,” says Coppola. He knew early on “they were not happy with what I had done…”, and expected to be fired at any moment. In the men’s room he heard crew members talking: about the film – “What a piece of junk!”; and about him – “This guy doesn’t know what he’s doing.” Coppola was constantly undermined. Indeed, Elia Kazan was lined up as a possible replacement. Coppola “kept dreaming that Kazan would arrive on the set and would say to me, ‘Uh, Francis, I’ve been asked to…’”."
— The Godfather: ‘Nobody enjoyed one day of it’ - Telegraph : Yet another example of why having a vision and sticking to it is so important for the artist in cinema.
