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
trying filmmaker
Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.
real people problem
Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.
children want camp-counselors
If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.
book writing wanted
I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
thinking stories waste
I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.
cutting creative film
I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'
writing asking able
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.
inspirational funny graduation
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.'
stories directors titles
I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.
reality keys consciousness
I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better time, consciousness and the dreamlike basis of reality.
sex creativity collaboration
Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.
brother hard-times america
In America, even the critics - which is a pity - tend to genre-ize things. They have a hard time when genres get mixed. They want to categorize things. That's why I love Wes Anderson's films and the Coen Brothers, because you don't know what you're going to get, and very often you get something that you don't expect and that's just what a genre's not supposed to do.
home years littles
I just finished a film a few days ago, and I came home and said I learned so much today. So if I can come home from working on a little film after doing it for 45 years and say, I learned so much today, that shows something about the cinema. Because the cinema is very young. It's only 100 years old.
art lying ancient
Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.