Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has vivid memories of his experience surviving polio. In interview with Deadline regarding his new film “Megalopolis,” Coppola, who was diagnosed with polio as a child around the age of 9, recalled the quick onset of the disease.

Coppola was saved by his father’s unwillingness to accept the diagnosis. Carmine Coppola was a composer who won Oscar scoring several of his son’s films, but perhaps his greatest achievement in his son’s work was going against the grain to ensure Francis Coppola would get a proper shot at life.

Francis Ford Coppola is urging new Trump administration public health picks be cautious about vaccine skepticism.