Francis Ford Coppola Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.”

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

“By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start.”

“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.”

“'The Godfather' changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely made me have an older man's film career when I was 29.”

“When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.”

“George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.”

“I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.”

“I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.”

“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.”