Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo
Mario Gianluigi Puzowas an American author, screenwriter and journalist. He is known for his crime novels about the Mafia, most notably The Godfather, which he later co-adapted into a three-part film saga directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 Superman film. His last novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 October 1920
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.
Tell my father I wish to be his son.
Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.
Even the strongest man needs friends.
The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands and wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters
Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.
I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.
We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.
In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.
Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.
Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.
Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.