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I've always loved clothes, especially handbags and shoes. I'd rather save my money on clothing and wear crap, but have the handbags and shoes.
— Alicia Coppola
I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.
— Francis Ford Coppola
If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.
— Francis Ford Coppola
A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.
— Francis Ford Coppola
My father is so in love with making movies, and he'sso charismatic about it, that it's hard to be around him withoutwanting to make movies.
— Sofia Coppola
My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.
— Sofia Coppola
I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.
— Elle Fanning
There's nothing creative about living within your means.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.
— Gia Coppola
'The Godfather' changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely made me have an older man's film career when I was 29.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
— Francis Ford Coppola
When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
— Roman Coppola
Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness.
— Gia Coppola
It's not just people in Hollywood: I'm sure everyone in the world thinks, 'What would be it like if I won an Oscar?'
— Roman Coppola
There's a story that during the filming of Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola had a sign on his trailer: Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two.
— Maria Semple
It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.
— Francis Ford Coppola
By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start.
— Francis Ford Coppola
My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.
— Victoria Gotti
Today's winemakers still worry about quality.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.
— Francis Ford Coppola
My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.
— Gia Coppola
As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I think there's always this idea in your head, but you have to allow the film to take its own course.
— Gia Coppola
I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Movie-wise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time.
— Francis Ford Coppola
There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I'm always really impressed when a movie can function like a novel does - that's so hard to do.
— Gia Coppola
There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.
— Gia Coppola
We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won't let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it's obscene.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Honestly, this will never happen because she's so much classier than me, but I would love to work with Sofia Coppola.
— Diablo Cody
I don't really wear makeup. I don't like the feeling of it. I just put mascara on, and that's kind of it.
— Gia Coppola
In Italy, there are a lot of Coppolas - it's like being called Jones. No one really notices.
— Gia Coppola
I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.
— Francis Ford Coppola
"Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola. It's a masterpiece. I laughed a lot but was also overwhelmed by the story - a rare combination.
— Emmanuelle Bercot
We definitely have to support other female directors because there's not enough of us.
— Gia Coppola
Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.
— Francis Ford Coppola
In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I love all the movies by director John Hughes. I also love John Landis's movies.
— Robert Coppola Schwartzman
I love Serge Lutens orange blossom perfume; my mom got it for me. It's my favorite. It just smells clean.
— Gia Coppola
I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.
— Francis Ford Coppola
One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes.
— Francis Ford Coppola
You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I love to play with the gadgets that come with film.
— Gia Coppola
I love my family's films.
— Gia Coppola
I'm definitely still putting effort into my lyrics, for them to be emotional and tell a story.
— Robert Coppola Schwartzman
My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.
— Francis Ford Coppola
It's hard not to be impressed by my older relatives.
— Gia Coppola
When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
— Sam Taylor-Johnson
I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.
— Gia Coppola
It's great because all of my friends from elementary school are still my closest friends.
— Gia Coppola
I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.
— Roman Coppola
I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I'm Italian, so I need to get someone to wax my eyebrows, but I'm not so good at keeping it up.
— Gia Coppola
The hardest thing on 'Palo Alto' was letting go because I kept working on it, trying to make it better.
— Gia Coppola
I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Hong Kong is the supermarket of Asia.
— Eleanor Coppola
I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one.
— Gia Coppola
I'm a pyro. I love exploding things.
— Gia Coppola
Movies are magical. Sometimes it just works, it catalyzes, and everything falls into place, and no one knows exactly how or why.
— Roman Coppola
I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'
— Francis Ford Coppola
It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.
— Sofia Coppola
I don't like being in front of the camera.
— Gia Coppola
When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I love making movies. But it's a lot of investing your heart and soul. It can be exhausting.
— Gia Coppola
Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.
— Anthony Michael Hall
Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.
— Francis Ford Coppola
It's hard for me to articulate myself.
— Gia Coppola
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.
— Sofia Coppola
I have a lot of game apps I need to delete.
— Gia Coppola
You can't host an Italian film festival without Marcello Mastroianni. It just doesn't feel right.
— Gia Coppola
I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.
— Gia Coppola
I probably have genius. But no talent.
— Francis Ford Coppola
