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Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I’ll continue to subsidize my own work.

– Francis Ford 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

I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I’m too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into my work, I get lost sometimes in bizarre things – it’s my Italian heritage.

– 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

‘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

We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.

– Francis Ford Coppola

My film is not a movie; it’s not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

– 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

I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.

– Francis Ford Coppola

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.

– 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

When that happens – when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute – very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.

– Francis Ford Coppola

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

– Francis Ford Coppola

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn’t speak any Russian. He didn’t care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

– 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

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

– Francis Ford Coppola

I probably have genius. But no talent.

– 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 was never sloppy with other people’s money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

– Francis Ford Coppola

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I’d be sure to have some dough to support my family.

– 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

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

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

‘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

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

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

– Francis Ford Coppola

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That’s what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was ‘You’re a Big Boy Now.’

– 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

That’s part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you’re trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

– 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

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