Coppola criticises acting legends
Film director Francis Ford Coppola has hit out at acting greats Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson, saying the trio lacked "passion".
The five-time Oscar-winner told GQ magazine they "all live off the fat of the land" and did not have ambition.
The 68-year-old maker of the Godfather trilogy said De Niro, one of his leading men, "never spends any money - he just puts it in his mattress".
He claimed Pacino always harboured ambitions to act in theatrical classics and added the actor once said: "Oh, I was raised next to a furnace in New York and I'm never going to go to Los Angeles."
The actor was Oscar-nominated for his peformances in the first two parts of The Godfather triology.
The film-maker compared the trio to younger actors, saying that they lack the conviction to get really stuck into a role.
"I don't feel that kind of passion to do a role and be great coming from these guys, because if it was there, they would do it.
"I mean, they're all in a position to do it," Coppola added. "I don't know what any of them want any more."
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