The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money? — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
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… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of camaraderie. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
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… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
