Francis Ford Coppola Quotes - Page 3

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• 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, Thinking, Games

  "What It Takes to Make a Great Movie" by Richard Brody, www.newyorker.com.

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

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  Lonely, Kids, College

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• 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.

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  Artist, Trying, Modern Life

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• I probably have genius. But no talent.

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  Genius, Talent

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

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  Movie, Thinking, Actors

  "Francis Ford Coppola returns to directing". www.today.com. September 24, 2005.

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• So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite.

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  Nice, Giving, Together

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• The essence of cinema is editing.

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  Editing, Essence, Cinema

  "Five Oscars as a Producer, Director and Screenwriter". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. April 7, 1939.

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• Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent.

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  Years, Innocent, Stills

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water.

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  Hurt, Morning, Phones

  "Francis Ford Coppola Talks 'Twixt' & Competing with his Former Self". Interview with Adam Pockross, yahoo.com. July 24, 2013.

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• I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

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  Vivid Imagination, Ideas, Talent

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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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  Emotional, Editing, Essence

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• 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.

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  Fall, Tears, Sixteen

  "Francis Ford Coppola: What I've Learned" by Stephen Garrett, www.esquire.com. July 7, 2009.

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• Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.

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  Critics, Realising

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• I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

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  Mean, Catholic, Church

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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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  Different, Opinion, Reason

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• I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

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  Luxury, Simplicity, Needs

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• Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.

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  Baby, Sex, Risk

  "Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration". Interview with Ariston Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Night

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• I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.

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  Writing, Men, Directors

  "Francis Ford Coppola on Lucas, an 'ambitious' new movie, and his box set". Interview with Solvej Schou, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2012.

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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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  Flags, Stuff, Casting

  "Five Oscars as a Producer, Director and Screenwriter". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 17, 1994.

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• The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.

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  Beach, Night, Done

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• If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

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  Finding Yourself, Restaurants, Hotel

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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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  Gadgets, Shops, Basements

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• 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.

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  Italian, House, Proud

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• My film isn't about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. It's what it was really like. It was crazy. And the way we made it was very much like the way the Americans were in Vietnam. We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment and little by little we went insane.

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  Crazy, Insane, Vietnam

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