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Yeah, my real name is Coppola. I changed it because they'd think I was some nepotism-oriented kid.

You aren't a true internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen.

I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business.

Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

I'm very impressed with 'Drive.'

I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.

I do enjoy animated movies.

Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with.

Everything we do impacts someone else's life.

The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.

I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans.

I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.

I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.'

Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.

I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes
which is what I always try to do in every movie
then I feel like I'm doing my job.

Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.

Don't lose the best thing in your life just because you are not sure.

I've been lucky to work with some of the most creative people and it's true that I enjoy filmmaking and I'm an enthusiast.

Sometimes people think I'm wearing a wig when I'm not wearing a wig, and then sometimes they think I'm not wearing a wig when I am wearing a wig.

I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

Remakes are always a challenge and they always are sitting ducks.

I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.

My definition of a father is someone who empowers their children.

I'm always fearful of something happening to people I love. That doesn't go away.

I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots.

I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong.

I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

Nobody ever thinks clearly at the airport.

The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.

I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books.

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.

I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.

Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.'

My best takes are my first two takes.

I've always believed that the greatest actors are the ones that have the voices that are imitable.

I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear.

I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.

I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies.

I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not.

I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.

One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'

I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.

One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it is important to stay passionate.

I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up.

Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul.

I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it.

I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.

With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.

Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.

I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.

I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.

I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.

I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.

I think I jump around more when I'm alone.

I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.

I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.

I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do.

I'm a seeker. I'm very much a believer in science. But I do think there are times when science and mysticism intersect.

One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

Nobody wants to watch perfection.

All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie.

I just want to keep making movies that hopefully makes some kids smile.

I like both Blu-ray and DVD, but Blu-ray gives you more options.

I mean, I've acted professionally since I was 16.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

I do like to move and get physical in my movies.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.

Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.