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Movie Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola
- I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight…
- In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.
- If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.
- Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.
- I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
- You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.
- I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and…
- I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play…
- My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.
- The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it.
- I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel…
- People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one…
- They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd…
- When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and…
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- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
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