On Monday night, Francis Ford Coppola sat down with Robert De Niro and Spike Lee for a conversation about Coppola’s self-funded, production-hell-laden new film, Megalopolis, how they all know each other (the answer: “from living in New York City”), and their thoughts on America. The conversation was rambling, wide-ranging, with a number of tangents and misdirections. If you’ve ever had a conversation with an 85-year-old, no matter how cogent, you’ll know the rhythms and asides can be unpredictable at best.