I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie. (Francis Ford Coppola)
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)
I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant. (Francis Ford Coppola)
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. (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)
They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family. (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)
In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales. (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)
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)
Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do. (Francis Ford Coppola)
Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal. (Francis Ford Coppola)
When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.' (Francis Ford Coppola)
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. (Francis Ford Coppola)
I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten. (Francis Ford Coppola)
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