Francis Ford Coppola quotes

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

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

Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.

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

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.

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.

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

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

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

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

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.

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.'

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

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

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

Art depends on luck and talent.

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

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

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.'