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" I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be. "
Francis Ford Coppola
You
Money
Never
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" 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
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You
Memorable
" 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
Believe
You
Think
" I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Well
School
Number
" My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Movie
About
Vietnam
" I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Them
Book
Direct
" As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Money
Long
I Can
" I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.' "
Francis Ford Coppola
Through
Creative
Film
" 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
Family
Love
Night
" I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Lonely
Age
College
" The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Good
Flag
Good Work
" 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
Job
Support
Family
" 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
Food
Speak
Proud
" I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Dumb
IQ
School
" 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 Can
Talent
Remember
" By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Start
Morning
Peace
" I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Build
Gadgets
Shop
" 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
People
Colleagues
Food
" I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school. "
Francis Ford Coppola
School
Kind
Kid
" 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
Really
Want
Remembered
" Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do. "
Francis Ford Coppola
World
Days
Cinema
" I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that. "
Francis Ford Coppola
People
Like
Just
" I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Girl
School
Experience
" 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
To Love
Terrible
Science
" 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
Like
Mean
Thought
" 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
Love
Start
" Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Try
Afford
Something
" People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Work
People
Movies
" '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
Career
Life
My Life
" That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Life
Me
Personal
" All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Great
People
Other