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Directors Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola
- The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.
- Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.
- A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.
- I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker.…
- I remember in The Conversation, they brought all these coats to me, and they said: Do you want him to look like a detective, Humphrey…
- 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. But you look…
- I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up,…
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- So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that… — Christian Bale
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