Francis Ford Coppola Messages

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.