# Tiago Forte - The Godfather Notebook (Highlights)  ## Metadata **Cover**:: https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article3.5c705a01b476.png **Source**:: #from/readwise **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Tiago Forte]] **Full Title**:: The Godfather Notebook **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [fortelabs.co](https://fortelabs.co/blog/the-godfather-notebook/) **Host**:: [[fortelabs.co]] **Highlighted**:: [[2021-08-11]] **Created**:: [[2022-09-26]] ## Highlights - He would start by cutting and pasting pages from The Godfather novel into a three-ring binder. Once there, he was free to add notes and comments that would later be used to write the screenplay and plan the production design. - In a short documentary titled Francis Coppola’s Notebook released in 2001, Coppola explains his process. #link - I think it’s important to put your impressions down on the first reading because those are the initial instincts about what you thought was good or what you didn’t understand or what you thought was bad. - Coppola explains how he came up with the “synopsis” for each scene of the movie: “I endeavored to distill the essence of each scene into a sentence, expressing in a few words what the point of the scene was.”