Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppolais an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. He was considered to be the central figure of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth7 April 1939
CountryUnited States of America
thinking answers littles
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.
movie art men
Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.
real jet-planes pleasure
One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something
epic scales
Work on nothing less than epic scale
art thinking creative
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
dream men important
It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.
past together form
You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.
trying littles talent
My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something...
artist trying modern-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.
circus directors inventing
A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.
opportunity trying asking
When you make a film it is like asking yourself a question. When it is finished, you know the answer. Ultimately with all of cinema, we are just trying to learn about ourselves. I have always used the opportunity to make a film to learn more about myself, which I am still doing.
art sex children
There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.
real memorable creativity
Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays.
movie golf play
I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.