Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

• Art depends on luck and talent.

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• When you start you want to make the greatest film in the world, but when you get into it, you just want to get it done, let it be passable and not embarrassing.

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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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  Topics in Movies

  Tags in People, Think

• 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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  Tags in Together, Something

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

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  Tags in Passion, Invites

• 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.

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  Tags in Think, Thing, Worked

• 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.

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  Tags in Unhappy, Making

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

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  Tags in Film, Found

• I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

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  Tags in Career, Unhappy

• 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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  Tags in Successful, Worked

• 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.

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  Tags in Teacher, Wonderful

• I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn’t do well in school.

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  Tags in School, Teachers

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interested, Literature, Musical

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

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  Tags in Strong, Number

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

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  Tags in Friends, Really

• I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

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  Tags in Things, Liked

• 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.

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  Tags in Understand, Wanted, Picture

• I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Remember, Programming

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

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  Tags in Remember, Teachers

• I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

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  Tags in Thought, Interested

Francis Ford Coppola (43)

Birth:	7th April, 1939
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Producer, Screenwriter

About

Francis Ford Coppola won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer, with Edmund H. North, of Patton. His directorial prominence was cemented with the release in 1972 of The Godfather, a film which revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre, earning praise from both critics and the public before winning three Academy Awards—including his second Oscar, Best Picture, and his first nomination for Best Director.

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