The new FFC posse

Coppola says he doesn’t want to work with Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, or Jack Nicholson because they’ve become apathetic.

"I don’t feel that kind of passion to do a role and be great coming from those guys, because if it was there, they would do it! I mean, they’re all in a position to do it,"

Meanwhile, prior to the upcoming Youth Without Youth, Coppola hadn’t directed a film since The Rainmaker, in 1997.

"Pacino always wanted to do theater. He wanted to do `Peer Gynt.’ He wanted to do Shakespeare. Pacino will say, `Oh, I was raised next to a furnace in New York, and I’m never going to L.A.,’ but they all live off the fat of the land," Coppola says.
"I think if there was a role that De Niro was hungry for, he would come after it. I don’t think Jack would," he says. "Jack has money and influence and girls, and I think he’s a little bit like (Marlon) Brando, except Brando went through some tough times."
Nicholson — a front-row regular at the Oscars and at Los Angeles Laker games — "was always kind of a joker" and a Hollywood schmooze, says Coppola. [Yahoo]

Man, old people suck at talking trash.