Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
'The Godfather' changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely made me have an older man's film career when I was 29. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready… — 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
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
Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about… — 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
My film isn't about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. It's what it was really like. It was crazy. And the way we made… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made,… — 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
