( EW.com ) -- Francis Ford Coppola is ready for a big picture comeback . The Oscar-winning filmmaker , now 73 , has made some of the most iconic movies of all time , from 1972 mob classic The Godfather to 1979 war epic Apocalypse Now . But as an equally humble student and lover of film , he 's recently made smaller movies with tiny budgets such as 2009 's Tetro , starring Vincent Gallo , and murder mystery Twixt , with Val Kilmer and Elle Fanning . Coppola spoke to EW about five of his films -- Apocalypse Now , the extended version Apocalypse Now Redux , Tetro , 1974 's The Conversation , and 1982 's One From the Heart â€ ” all being released as a Blu-ray box set through Lionsgate on Tuesday . With new offices next year in Los Angeles on the Paramount Pictures lot , he also revealed his plans , and mentioned a first draft script , for a new `` ambitious '' big budget movie set in New York , as well as what he expects of his `` kid brother '' director George Lucas following the Disney- Lucasfilm acquisition . With the 2007 documentary Fog City Mavericks capturing the creative , independent spark of Bay Area filmmakers such as Coppola and Lucas , a new era for both has begun . Entertainment Weekly : How did you decide on releasing together as a box set these five particular movies , including One From the Heart , starring Teri Garr , which has never been on Blu-ray ? Apocalypse Now , previously released , looks amazing . Francis Ford Coppola : Apocalypse is used for people to try out their sound system , their home theater . The standard theater , the Dolby 5.0 system , that all derived from Apocalypse , because Dolby was in San Francisco when we did the film . So many things are impacted by legal matters . Those are five movies that I own . Films such as The Godfather , or [ 1969 's ] The Rain People , the first that I wrote a screenplay for , Warner owns that one . I own the rights to Apocalypse Now and the others . Studios tend to not want to sell a movie because if they sell it and it becomes successful [ on DVD , Blu-ray ] , it 's an embarrassment . Lionsgate thought of doing the collection . The Rain People is n't even out wide on DVD . EW Daily Poll : Which has stronger talent this season ? EW : Could a war movie such as Apocalypse Now ever be made today ? I consider it one of the best war movies of all time , and it 's steeped in the period , the Vietnam War , plus Joseph Conrad 's Heart of Darkness as source material . What you , Martin Sheen and the cast went through making it , the mayhem , the drugs , health issues , filming in the Philippines , the weather , being pulled into that dark , depression-filled space . Now everything is Tweeted , Facebooked , paparazzi-ed , revealed early on . Coppola : Back in those days , I was pretty young . I made The Godfather , The Conversation , The Godfather Part II so young . Nobody wanted to make a film about the Vietnam War . Even the actors I befriended did n't want to go with me to the jungle . I was pretty frustrated as a young person . I made it myself . I hawked everything , the wineries . When the movie came out , there was a ragged reaction . They used to call it Apocalypse When , and portrayed me as Kurtz gone crazy , a megalomaniac . I finally showed it at the Cannes Film Festival unfinished , because so much had been badly written about it . I knew I was out on a limb , because of the style of the film . I sold it to the various foreign territories as if it was a World War II film like [ 1977 's ] A Bridge Too Far . But it was so different . I was also financially on the hook . EW : And since then Apocalypse Now has long been considered one of the best movies of all time . Coppola : It 's a kind of a Cassandra Complex . Even if you did it once , and people sort of damned it , it became part of the culture . If you want to do it again , it does n't matter . You go through it again [ making a movie ] . Even in my personal life . My company and people think I 'm wacky when I have an idea . ... I know if I have an idea , no one will want to go through it . But if I persist , people will go through it . EW : What is going on with the Bay Area filmmaking scene documented in Fog City Mavericks , especially with you doing smaller movies , and now getting offices at Paramount in L.A. next year . Plus , George Lucas ' Lucasfilm being acquired by Burbank-based Disney ? Coppola : George is like a kid brother to me . He 's someone I 'm enormously proud of , fond of . You can expect from George three more personal films [ post the Lucasfilm deal ] . `` Like Francis , I 'll make films no one wants to see , '' he would say . Why I went and did three little teeny movies . I wanted to be a film student again , as a man in my 60s . To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up , with non-existent budgets . I did n't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues , which you have when when you 're a big time director . I wanted to write personal works . ... You could n't go to a financier and say `` I want to make a movie that wants to ask a question , then answers it with the movie . '' EW : So what are you working on now , given your new offices next year at Paramount ? Coppola : I have a secret investor that has infinite money . I learned what I learned from my three smaller films , and wanted to write a bigger film . I 've been writing it . It 's so ambitious so I decided to go to L.A. and make a film out of a studio that has all the costume rentals , and where all the actors are . My story is set in New York . I have a first draft . I 'm really ready for a casting phase . Movies are big in proportion to the period . It starts in the middle of the '20s , and there are sections in the '30s and the late '40s , and it goes until the late '60s . EW : Lastly , would you ever do a sequel to any of your other movies , following in the footsteps of franchises like Star Wars , such as another sequel to The Godfather ? Coppola : No . I think a sequel is a waste of money and time . I think movies should illuminate new stories . See the original story at EW.com . CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
Five of five of Coppola 's films are being released as a Blu-ray box set . He says George Lucas `` is like a kid brother to me '' Coppola says no to anymore sequels .