Cinema Quote by Francis Ford Coppola Download Open image “A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.” — Francis Ford Coppola ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Circus Directors Inspirational Inventing Love
There are lots of people that make movies. It's not just the director. — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven. — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director. — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.... — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's… — Shawn Levy Copy Share Image
I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created. — Charles Keating Copy Share Image
Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
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… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
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… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
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… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of camaraderie. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
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… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
