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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you… — 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 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
