Quotes of Francis Ford Coppola - somelinesforyou

“ Anyone who’s made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ Anyone who’s made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

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

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

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

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ 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. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ 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. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

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

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ I bring to my life a certain amount of mess. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

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

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ 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. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

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

- Francis Ford Coppola
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