Francis Ford Coppola and William Friedkin, who have known each other for over 50 years, reflect on their time together in the Directors Company and Friedkin's significant contributions to cinema.
went back more than half a century, including their days in the Directors Company, the short-lived production entity they and Peter Bogdanovich launched in the early 1970s.
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