Francis Ford Coppola

The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

— Francis Ford Coppola

We do things for good reasons that are bad.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Death is what makes life an event.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Art depends on luck and talent.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent.

— Francis Ford Coppola

“I don't see any method at all...Sir”

— 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 had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.

— 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

Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

— 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

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through…

— 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…

— Francis Ford Coppola

My company and people think I'm wacky when I have an idea... I know if I have an idea, no one will…

— Francis Ford Coppola

The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle…

— Francis Ford Coppola

Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it…

— Francis Ford Coppola

All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are…

— Francis Ford Coppola

My film isn't about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. It's what it was really like. It was crazy. And the way we made…

— Francis Ford Coppola

Of all the human evils, of which we have thousands of years of record and our own contemporary experiences, the most horrible…

— 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…

— 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

In America, even the critics - which is a pity - tend to genre-ize things. They have a hard time when genres…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I remember in The Conversation, they brought all these coats to me, and they said: Do you want him to look like…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John…

— Francis Ford Coppola

“... there's a hormone secreted into the bloodstream of most writers that makes them hate their own work while they are doing…

— Francis Ford Coppola

Work on nothing less than epic scale

— Francis Ford Coppola

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

— Francis Ford Coppola

The essence of cinema is editing.

— Francis Ford Coppola

There's nothing creative about living within your means.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Today's winemakers still worry about quality.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I probably have genius. But no talent.

— Francis Ford Coppola