Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

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

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.

I still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.

'Godfather' was very classical, the way it was shot, the style, the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.

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.

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.

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

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

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.

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.

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.

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.

I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time, consciousness and the dream-like basis of reality.

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.

I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.

I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.