Francis Ford Coppola famous quotes

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Movie #Thinking #Fog

There's nothing creative about living within your means.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Mean #Creative #Filmmaker

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Passion #Chaos #Intense

It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Dream #Men #Important

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Beautiful #Art #Risk

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Past #Together #Form

If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Mistake #People

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Ideas #Stuff

The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Beach #Night #Done

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

#Courage #Memorable #Ideas

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 peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Team #Artist #Wire

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Gadgets #Shops #Basements

I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Successful #Young #Enthusiastic

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

#Italian #House #Proud

Art depends on luck and talent.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Art #Luck #Talent

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

#Hate

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 at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Thinking #Directors #Looks

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

#Children #People #Television

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Art #Thinking #Creative

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Emotional #Editing #Essence

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

#Insane #Littles #Too Much

It takes no imagination to live within your means.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Mean #Imagination

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 not really a sure thing.'
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Risk #Elements #Film

When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Glue #Paper #Unions

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

#Cinema #Done #Film

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, you could become successful.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Country #Real #Patriotic

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Drinking #Wine #Eating

The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Awards #Achievement #Lifetime

A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Teamwork #Numbers #Together

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.
-- Francis Ford Coppola

#Thinking #Answers #Littles