Want Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

8 Want quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

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Francis Ford Coppola’s eight short quotes on wanting read like storyboard notes for the human drama. He captures the tension between aspiration and reality in a cinematic, punchy style.

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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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My company and people think I'm wacky when I have an idea... I know if I have an idea, no one will…

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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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In America, even the critics - which is a pity - tend to genre-ize things. They have a hard time when genres…

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I remember in The Conversation, they brought all these coats to me, and they said: Do you want him to look like…

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I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you…

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If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp…

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The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger…

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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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