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
father son ideas
I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast
ideas self sticks
If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.
thinking pleasure warmth
I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure.
successful insanity wish
Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.
crazy insane vietnam
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.
baby sex risk
Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.
dream lenses captured
Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.
black-and-white littles nine
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.
business fire human-nature
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.
way different helping
Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives.
different opinion reason
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.
writing proud
I'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.
work order years
I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.
art cost making-money
But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?