Also see: https://www.newyorker.com/books/book-currents/francis-ford-coppola-on-books-that-influenced-megalopolis https://www.newyorker.com/books/book-currents/

Also see: https://www.newyorker.com/books/book-currents/francis-ford-coppola-on-books-that-influenced-megalopolis https://www.newyorker.com/books/book-currents/francis-ford-c... With comments from Coppola about Riane Eisler's The Chalice and the Blade, but also Cao Xueqin's The Dream of the Red Chamber, William Bolitho's Twelve Against the Gods, Cole and Chinoy's project Directors on Directing, and Goethe's Elective Affinities