Francis Coppola Quotes (10 Quotes)

There was a little bit of tittering when the young boys were in bed, partly because they were such beautiful kids. But of course, brothers have slept together in beds for hundreds of years.

I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better time, consciousness and the dreamlike basis of reality.

The book is inherently difficult to adapt to the screen, and we've never quite found the right combination of director and writer to do it justice until now.

I think it was more like the original Francis before The Godfather who just wanted to make personal films and use sensible-sized crews and equipment.

I do the things I love on the theory that there might be other people enjoying the same things that I enjoy, ... And I just gravitate to what I think is authentic, pleasurable and has quality.

Ironically, 'Apocalypse Now' was a great, great success and remains to this day a classic -- and really is one of the things that earns the money that supports my family, ... But at the time, when 'Apocalypse Now' was actually about to come out, I was very worried about it.

I see this all as steps on the path to something. Maybe I'll be more qualified to do 'Megalopolis' if I really digest this film. 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.

I think for me, the showdown was when my granddaughter's class asked me to come and show the film and I was embarrassed to show the normal version, ... So I cobbled together a version of the whole movie, the whole novel, and I remember looking at it and wondering, Why did I ever cut this down'

To me, it was fun, ... To them, it was a life-and-death career thing.

It's a parable, it's a fable. It's almost like an intellectual Twilight Zone , ... In a way it's like a Hitchcock picture and Tim Roth is the Jimmy Stewart, the guy who gets caught up in something fascinating and big.