When you make a film it is like asking yourself a question. When it is finished, you know the answer. Ultimately with… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and… — 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
