Wanted Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

9 Wanted quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

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Francis Ford Coppola’s nine brief lines on Wanted give a snapshot of the filmmaker’s grand vision, where yearning fuels cinematic storytelling.

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I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the…

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I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

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I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

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I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I…

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People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made,…

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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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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 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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I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the…

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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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