I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days. — 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
'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In America, even the critics - which is a pity - tend to genre-ize things. They have a hard time when genres… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share
Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share
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
