Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal.

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

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Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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I made this movie for 40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.

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I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.

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

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

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I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

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

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I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

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

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George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.

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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.

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

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I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

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

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

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Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

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

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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.

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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.

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