Francis Ford Coppola Quotes


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 again. - Francis Ford Coppola


You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it. - Francis Ford Coppola


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 be lost. - Francis Ford Coppola


When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget. - Francis Ford Coppola


When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have. - Francis Ford Coppola


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 famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.' - Francis Ford Coppola


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 for a while, so I watched television. - Francis Ford Coppola


When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material. - Francis Ford Coppola


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 music, ate Italian food. - Francis Ford Coppola


We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane. - Francis Ford Coppola


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