One thing One From The Heart seems to have in common with Megalopolis is that Coppola really wants to make films that are like 275% Movie Stuff, to the point where they're otherwise indecipherable at basically any level, even/especially if it fucks his life up. In this case, he really did it.

Also and finally the universe is not really making new Teri Garrs or Raul Julias. My pledge to you is that I will somehow remedy this. The culture needs it.

"Francis Coppola, bless his theatrical soul, may have the commercial sense of a newt, but he has the heart of a revolutionary, and the talent of a great artist." -- Evergreen quote from Jay Scott's review of Rumble Fish