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.

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

EXCLUSIVE: The 85-year old five-time Oscar winning director Francis Ford Coppola is spending the days before Christmas wrapping not presents, but the international rollout of Megalopolis. This week, he's doing interviews as the film opens in South American markets,

Responding to mounting concerns that the second Donald Trump administration may limit the use of vaccines after tapping prominent vaccine skeptics like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to his cabinet, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola opened up about his childhood experience with polio and the "horror" of spending 10 days isolated in a health ward with "screaming kids.