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Very Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola
- I'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.
- 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…
- I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
- Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something,…
- I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.
- 'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.
- I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.
- I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this…
- I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes…
- I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate.…
- I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would…
- Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more…
- Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves.…
- 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…
- We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian…
- When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed…
- When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get…
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong