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.

Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola recalls the "horror" of surviving childhood polio amid questions about the future of its vaccine.

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.

The "Megalopolis" filmmaker responds to vaccine skeptics among the president-elect's cabinet picks, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The post Francis Ford Coppola Slams ‘Absurd’ Idea Trump Would ‘Reverse Course’ on Vaccines,

Francis Ford Coppola was warned that he might never walk again after he contracted polio as a child. The 85-year-old director recalled feeling ‘frightened’ for the other kids on the hospital ward, only to realise his own situation was worse than he initially thought.

Francis Ford Coppola was warned he'd never walk again after contracting polio. The 85-year-old director was stricken by the virus as a child and recalled feeling "frightened" for the other kids on the hospital ward,