Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

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Francis Ford Coppola

Profession : Director

Birth : April 7, 1939

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 rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.

Francis Ford Coppola

It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

Francis Ford Coppola

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

Francis Ford Coppola

Movie-wise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time.

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I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.

Francis Ford Coppola

If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.

Francis Ford Coppola

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.

Francis Ford Coppola

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

Francis Ford Coppola

Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.

Francis Ford Coppola

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

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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 reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I've financed myself.

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My company and people think I'm wacky when I have an idea... I know if I have an idea, no one will want to go through it. But if I persist, people will go through it.

Francis Ford Coppola

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, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.

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I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

Francis Ford Coppola

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 at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph.

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Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

Francis Ford Coppola

The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it.

Francis Ford Coppola

Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.

Francis Ford Coppola

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

Francis Ford Coppola

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

Francis Ford Coppola