I don't know the word, but it goes like,
We kids always heard stories about the Bernalda,
and we knew that this is where my grandfather came from,
and we knew we ate some very strange food,
and we had some very strange customs
and that they all seemed to come from Bernaldabella
He never said Bernalda, he made one word, Bernaldabella
I was fascinated, It sounded like an almost mystical place
When I was around 22
I made a film in Dublin and then Yugoslavia
and came across the Adriatic and went to look for Bernaldabella
Since the time that my grandfather left, in 1904,
I was the first one of the Coppola family to go back to Bernalda
In those days, as I was growing up,
there were things that we did that the other kids didn't
We would go to, occasionally, a pizzeria
No one, none of my friends, knew what a pizzeria was,
and my mother would say, "Oh, you live in America,
it's the greatest country in the world,
and my father said, "Yes, but you're Italian,
which is a country of all the great composers, and..."
We were very proud, because we were both American and Italian,
and we thought we had the best of two great things
My nephew is Francis Ford Coppola, the famous cinéaste,
the famous Hollywood director,
and he created this wonderful place here, down at the bottom of Italy,
between the toe and the heel
So this is the garden of the Palazzo Margherita
and this garden is a historic garden
You know I imagine that this is the garden of the princess
that has to stay behind the wall
until the lucky adventurer climbs over the wall to find her
Any artistic endeavor, building a hotel, making a film,
has similarities to any other art form
You're trying to create an illusion
I've begun almost a second phase of my career,
really just the things I love to do, things I enjoyed
If I liked wine, I found that before I knew it
I was in the wine business
And I liked very much the jungle
when I was working on Apocalypse Now
so I bought a little hideaway to go write in Belize,
and that became a hotel
So I found out that the things you do out of the love of doing them
you can have a success of sorts
I do believe that heritage is the foundation,
in our family, they were either mecanisti, machinists, and engineers,
or musicians
And, of course, the old man, Agostino,
was this incredible, exaggerating storyteller
So if you think of it, you have technology, music and storytelling,
that's sort of cinema.
We've been married too long
No, no, the answer's 62 years
The reason for the longevity of the marriage?
The answer is pasta e fagioli
However, however, it has to be condita correctly,
that is with the correct olive oil,
and then peperoncino,
and then una nevicata, that's a snowfall of Parmesano cheese
I know, but what has that got to do with the price of eggs?
They asked you about marriage
What's this pasta e fagioli...
Well I thought that had to do with marriage.