With more than five dozen major film and television projects under his belt, two Emmys, two Tonys, an Oscar, and a tribute from the Kennedy Center Honors, it’s obvious that Al Pacino is pretty good at this acting thing.

However, everyone has to get their start somewhere, and Pacino’s career was almost derailed at the very beginning when he was almost fired from the 1972 classic The…

There are so many all-time great quotes from _The Godfather_ that we could do a whole month on dissecting them all, but today, I want to talk about one that has entered the cultural lexicon, and it's one I use all the time.

Funny enough, it's one that Nora Ephron uses in _You've Got Mail_ , one that I think is so funny in that scene, and that represents how much _The Godfather_ has meant to…

If you held a gun to my head, or maybe a cannoli, and asked me to name what the greatest movie ever made is, I would probably pick __The Godfather__ (1972).

It's a movie that has so much wisdom and ideas about life; you can watch it over and over and keep learning about the movie and yourself.

There’s one line I go back to that actually is the core of the entire trilogy. It happens in a…

For most filmmakers, _The Godfather_ is holy text. Mario Puzo’s 1969 novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptations taught generations of storytellers everything they need to know about subtext, pacing, character arcs, and the world of the mafia.

Those are all valuable things to know in this world. And we may have more lessons about the Corleone family and their rise to power in…