Francis Ford Coppola quotes Cowrote and directed 'The Godfather' (1972) Born: 04/07/1939 Country: usa

• A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually. (Francis Coppola)
• Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. (Francis Coppola)
• Art depends on luck and talent. (Francis Coppola)
• 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. (Francis Coppola)
• 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. (Francis Coppola)
• I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me. (Francis Coppola)
• I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant. (Francis Coppola)
• I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it. (Francis Coppola)
• I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing. (Francis Coppola)
• 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 Coppola)
• I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school. (Francis Coppola)
• I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini. (Francis Coppola)
• 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. (Francis Coppola)
• I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie. (Francis 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 (Francis Coppola)
• I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets. (Francis Coppola)
• 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. (Francis Coppola)
• I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement. (Francis Coppola)
• I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. (Francis Coppola)
• I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. (Francis Coppola)
• I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school. (Francis Coppola)
• I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten. (Francis Coppola)
• In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales. (Francis Coppola)
• It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again. (Francis Coppola)
• 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. (Francis Coppola)
• 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 Coppola)
• My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. (Francis Coppola)
• 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. (Francis Coppola)
• 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 Coppola)
• The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments (Francis Coppola)
• The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college. (Francis Coppola)

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