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Francis Ford Coppola - A man climbs a mountain and they call him a hero. I climb mountains that aren't even there.
— Madeline Moore
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
I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.
— Francis Ford Coppola
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
A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.
— 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
The things you get fired for when you're young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you're old.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Art depends on luck and talent.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Work on nothing less than epic scale
— Francis Ford 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
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 think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.
— 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
The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast
— Francis Ford Coppola
The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Death is what makes life an event.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.
— 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
I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.
— 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
Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives.
— Francis Ford Coppola
We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.
— Francis Ford Coppola
The essence of cinema is editing.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.
— Francis Ford Coppola
If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes ... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.
— Francis Ford Coppola
If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.
— 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
Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
— Francis Ford Coppola
To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'
— Francis Ford Coppola
George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.
— Francis Ford Coppola
You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.
— Francis Ford 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
I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.
— Francis Ford Coppola
'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.
— 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
Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.
— Francis Ford 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
So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.
— Francis Ford Coppola
The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.
— Francis Ford Coppola
We do things for good reasons that are bad.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.
— 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
Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.
— Francis Ford Coppola
As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'
— Francis Ford 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
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
Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.
— Francis Ford Coppola
But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?
— 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 probably have genius. But no talent.
— 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
My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.
— Francis Ford Coppola
One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes.
— Francis Ford 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 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
It takes no imagination to live within your means.
— Francis Ford Coppola
We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.
— Francis Ford Coppola
My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something ...
— Francis Ford Coppola
I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
— Francis Ford Coppola
My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.
— Victoria Gotti
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
The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.
— Francis Ford Coppola
It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.
— Francis Ford 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
I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I learned from Francis Ford Coppola to treat the company like your family.
— Mary Stuart Masterson
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
Today's winemakers still worry about quality.
— Francis Ford Coppola