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You Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola
- 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.
- 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,…
- Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
- You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will…
- When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was…
- 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…
- Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.
- Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing,…
- I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.
- If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.
- Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.
- The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside…
- To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is…
- 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…
- 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…
- Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with…
- I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do…
- 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,…
- My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio…
- Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of…
- That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to…
- 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…
- You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed…
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