Francis Ford Coppola Quotes & Sayings
111 most famous Francis Ford Coppola quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's an 85 year old American director born on Apr 7, 1939.
“I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.”
“Art depends on luck and talent.”
“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.”
“When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.”
“I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.”
“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.”
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