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
Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.
If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.
Tell my father I wish to be his son.
In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone
Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.
Friendship and money: oil and water.
All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.
I will make you an offer you cannot refuse
ِAn offer you can't refuse
Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.
No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.
Every man has but one destiny" Veto Corleone