Francis Ford Coppola quotes
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“I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.”
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“There's nothing creative about living within your means.”
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“Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.”
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“It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.”
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“An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?”
-- Francis Ford CoppolaSource : "Happy Birthday Francis Ford Coppola! Watch His Wild Early Movie ‘Dementia 13’ For Free" by Emily Buder, www.indiewire.com. April 7, 2014.
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“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.”
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“If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.”
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“Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.”
-- Francis Ford CoppolaSource : "Dmoch lamp line named for Francis Ford Coppola" by Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. March 30, 2011.
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“The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.”
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“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.”
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“The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.”
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“I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.”
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“I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.”
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“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.”
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“You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.”
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“I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.”
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“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.”
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“I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.”
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“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.”
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“We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.”
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“It takes no imagination to live within your means.”
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“To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'”
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“When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.”
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“Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.”
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“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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“Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.”
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“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.”
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“A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.”
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“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.”
-- Francis Ford Coppola
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