Francis Ford Coppola Quotes, Thoughts and images

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something.

There's nothing creative about living within your means.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

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.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Work on nothing less than epic scale

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

Death is what makes life an event.

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

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.

Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

We had access to too much equipment, too much money, and little by little we went insane.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.

It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.

I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.

I probably have genius. But no talent.

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

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

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.

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.