Kind Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

9 Kind quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

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Francis Ford Coppola’s thoughts on kindness are cinematic in scope yet intimate in feeling. This concise collection of nine quotes offers a glimpse into his belief that compassion shapes great storytelling.

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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…

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I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money…

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I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind…

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Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it…

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I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

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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…

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I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money…

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The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images…

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Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big…

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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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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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