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8 I can quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

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Coppola’s reflections reveal a steadfast belief in storytelling. This brief set captures his visionary self‑assurance, perfect for a quick creative spark.

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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.…

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When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote,…

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I just finished a film a few days ago, and I came home and said I learned so much today. So if…

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My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go…

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I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old…

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As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

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By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with…

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I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I…

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

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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…

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I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

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I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

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Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.

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Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son…

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Death is what makes life an event.

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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…

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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…

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Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial…

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

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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…

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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…

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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.

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There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

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