Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant. "

Francis Ford Coppola

Related Quotes:

" 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

" I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" 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 into my work, I get lost sometimes in bizarre things - it's my Italian heritage. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful. "

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

" I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to work, which for now is to think and read and write, so it's all a dream come true. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school. "

Francis Ford Coppola

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

Francis Ford Coppola

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

Francis Ford Coppola

" I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue. "

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

" I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. "

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

" 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

" I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" It takes no imagination to live within your means. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family. "

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

" I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way. "

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

" 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 illusions and working within the confines of the studio. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets. "

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. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" I probably have genius. But no talent. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" 'The Godfather' changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely made me have an older man's film career when I was 29. "

Francis Ford Coppola