of all-time this man has made three of them. i'm really interested in talking to him for another reason. when i came to america first i was in college and i took a class, classics of american cinema. it was in some ways helpful for me because it gave me a sense of the culture and the country that i was now living in. and i wrote my final paper on "the godfather," actually on the opening four or five minutes of "the godfather," the first scene, and i had a thesis about what it all meant. so now i get to ask the man who made the movie whether i was right. >> when i first read "the godfather," the novel by mario puzo, i was shocked as i went into the book to realize number one mario was some guy in bayshore, this italian-american who didn't speak italian, knew