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
hurt morning phones
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.
lonely kids college
I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.
ideas vivid-imagination talent
I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.
successful young enthusiastic
I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.
gadgets basements shops
I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.
italian house proud
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.
art luck talent
Art depends on luck and talent.
thinking looks actors
I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.
believe thinking games
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.
beach night philippines
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.
emotional editing essence
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.
thinking air blood
Everyone knows the phenomenon of trying to hold your breath underwater - how at first it's alright and you can handle it, and then as it gets closer and closer to the time when you must breathe, how urgent the need becomes, the lust and the hunger to breathe. And then the panic sets in when you begin to think that you won't be able to breathe - and finally, when you take in air and the anxiety subsides...that's what it's like to be a vampire and need blood.
drinking wine eating
Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.
kids school talent
I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.