Feel Quotes

Art depends on luck and talent.

Francis Ford Coppola

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

Francis Ford Coppola

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

Francis Ford Coppola

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I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.

Francis Ford Coppola

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

Francis Ford Coppola

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We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun.

Francis Ford Coppola

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The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it.

Francis Ford Coppola

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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.

Francis Ford Coppola

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If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

Francis Ford Coppola

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You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.

Francis Ford Coppola

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I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

Francis Ford Coppola

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When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.

Francis Ford Coppola

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When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.

Francis Ford Coppola

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I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

Francis Ford Coppola

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It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

Francis Ford Coppola

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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

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When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.

Francis Ford Coppola

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I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.

Francis Ford Coppola

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I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.

Francis Ford Coppola

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Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

Francis Ford Coppola

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