Top 100 Coppola Quotes
#1. I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in 'Pretty Woman' held a bizarre allure for me. But, it's silly to look back with regret.
Eric Stoltz
#2. When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.
Francis Ford Coppola
#3. 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
#4. I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.
Gia Coppola
#5. Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie ... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.
Francis Ford Coppola
#6. It was kind of intimidating to make a feature without that much experience.
Gia Coppola
#7. When you make a film it is like asking yourself a question. When it is finished, you know the answer. Ultimately with all of cinema, we are just trying to learn about ourselves. I have always used the opportunity to make a film to learn more about myself, which I am still doing.
Francis Ford Coppola
#8. Friends would ask, 'Have you seen 'The Godfather?' and I'd be like, 'No.'
Gia Coppola
#9. We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun.
Francis Ford Coppola
#10. I'm Italian, so I need to get someone to wax my eyebrows, but I'm not so good at keeping it up.
Gia Coppola
#11. I'd love to work with Tarantino, Scorsese, Sofia Coppola - all of them! I love thrillers and action movies. I love good horror films. I watched them so much when I was younger that I find it impossible to get scared.
Cara Delevingne
#12. It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
#13. If I were to save one possession in a fire, it would have to be my dad's camera, an old, broken Nikon. I always keep it with me - his personal things mean a lot.
Gia Coppola
#14. 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
#15. Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.
Francis Ford Coppola
#16. I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
#17. 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
#18. That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.
Francis Ford Coppola
#19. As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.
Francis Ford Coppola
#20. 'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.
Francis Ford Coppola
#21. I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'
Francis Ford Coppola
#22. With my aunt, I definitely can relate to how she makes a movie because she does it with her own demeanor, which isn't this loud presence.
Gia Coppola
#23. I like the pharmacy makeup. I always get stuck in that aisle ... I've always liked looking at it.
Gia Coppola
#24. Chanel is a brand that is so inspiring.
Gia Coppola
#25. I always say this - As an actor, we're lucky to get a job. Then we're lucky that anybody gives a damn to watch the thing that we're in.
Alicia Coppola
#26. It's not just people in Hollywood: I'm sure everyone in the world thinks, 'What would be it like if I won an Oscar?'
Roman Coppola
#27. Movies are magical. Sometimes it just works, it catalyzes, and everything falls into place, and no one knows exactly how or why.
Roman Coppola
#28. I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. As one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, "If you aren't taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker?"
Christian Bale
#29. Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.
Alex Winter
#30. 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
#32. My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph.
Francis Ford Coppola
#33. I enjoy seeing how my friends - Proenza Schouler, Zac Posen, Rodarte - use clothes to create their vision and art.
Gia Coppola
#34. My family and I are so close, it's important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays.
Gia Coppola
#35. I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.
Sofia Coppola
#36. I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.
Gia Coppola
#37. I like the camera to be still and not very shaky and have everything happen within the frame.
Gia Coppola
#38. I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.
Gia Coppola
#40. I eat very well. I cook for my family every night. We eat a variety of things, including chicken, fish, pork, lentils, all veggies, pastas, and salads. You name it, we eat it - except salmon, which I find disgusting. Sorry, salmon.
Alicia Coppola
#41. 'The Godfather' changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely made me have an older man's film career when I was 29.
Francis Ford Coppola
#42. Anything that you think is wild or fun, or can't wait to see or show your friends, go for it.
Roman Coppola
#43. I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.
Gia Coppola
#44. I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
Francis Ford Coppola
#45. I really learned a lot when I worked on my grandpa's film 'Twixt' and got to be with him start to finish and sit next to him every day. That was my film school.
Gia Coppola
#48. I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera.
Sofia Coppola
#49. It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.
Francis Ford Coppola
#50. The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.
Francis Ford Coppola
#51. We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.
Francis Ford Coppola
#52. Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.
Gia Coppola
#53. I think, having done 'The Princess Diaries,' it was a fun experience, and it's cool to have made fans that are now into all this music. That movie is still so relevant to our culture. It's always on. It's kind of a rare, nostalgic thing. I get tweets all the time about it.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
#54. I try to do a variety of physical activities. I spin, take classes at Barry's Boot Camp, go to the gym, use home DVD's of ChaLEAN Extreme workouts, which I think are brilliant, and I run around after my three girls. Also, let's be honest. The amount of laundry I do is an exercise in and of itself!
Alicia Coppola
#55. I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.
Francis Ford Coppola
#56. Most movies use older actors, but I thought, if I could just put kids on camera and get them to be themselves, what could be easier?
Gia Coppola
#57. I started Rooney in high school. These were guys I went to high school with and guys I knew from L.A.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
#58. Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.
Roman Coppola
#59. I love Serge Lutens orange blossom perfume; my mom got it for me. It's my favorite. It just smells clean.
Gia Coppola
#60. I just finished a film a few days ago, and I came home and said I learned so much today. So if I can come home from working on a little film after doing it for 45 years and say, I learned so much today, that shows something about the cinema. Because the cinema is very young. It's only 100 years old.
Francis Ford Coppola
#61. 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
#62. It's scary to watch someone you love go into the center of himself and confront his fears, fear of failure, fear of death, fear of going insane. You have to fail a little, die a little, go insane a little, to come out the other side.
Eleanor Coppola
#64. I kind of feel like we're all humans; we all live on this planet. I kind of always wish there was more of a partnership - a really healthy relationship between people, working together to do things and make it good and change.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
#65. 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
#67. There's a hormone secreted into the bloodstream of most writers that makes them hate their own work while they are doing it, or immediately after. This, coupled with the chorus of critical reaction from those privileged to take a first look, is almost enough to discourage further work entirely.
Francis Ford Coppola
#68. As a teenager, I wanted to be sophisticated and avant-garde, and I was really judgmental. But when you're a teenager, you're fearless because you don't know the repercussions to anything.
Gia Coppola
#69. Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.
Roman Coppola
#70. All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.
Francis Ford Coppola
#71. Ever since I was little, I've felt very comfortable on a set. The time is stressful - being creative under time constraints. But there is an excitement and energy that you only have a certain amount of time to get what you want.
Sofia Coppola
#72. I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.
Roman Coppola
#73. Honestly, this will never happen because she's so much classier than me, but I would love to work with Sofia Coppola.
Diablo Cody
#74. Years go by. I go here, I go there, I have all sorts of adventures, and then I look back and say, 'Wow that's kind of an unusual way to live your life.'
Roman Coppola
#76. I've always wanted to do a project with space imagery because I've always loved these amazing sci-fi electro book covers. I've always loved science fiction. I feel like space imagery has no boundaries.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
#77. That's the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.
Sofia Coppola
#78. There's a story that during the filming of Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola had a sign on his trailer: Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two.
Maria Semple
#81. I would like to do more feature work. I intend to do that. To be really honest, it's an economic thing because when you make a film that doesn't make what it cost back, it's very difficult to get back in the ring.
Roman Coppola
#82. A movie that I'm involved with and have a lot of love for, which is 'On The Road,' does use a lot of handheld. It can be done beautifully. I'm proud of that. It's a very beautiful movie.
Roman Coppola
#83. I've always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.
Gia Coppola
#84. I think what's so great about making your first feature film is that you're so naive in some ways; you don't know what to expect, and you don't question things as much because you're just trying to figure it out as you go.
Gia Coppola
#85. Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
Olivia DeJonge
#86. The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money.
Robert Duvall
#87. I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.
Francis Ford Coppola
#88. It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
Francis Ford Coppola
#89. Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays.
Francis Ford Coppola
#90. Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.
Gia Coppola
#92. When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
Roman Coppola
#94. I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.
Gia Coppola
#97. I always knew my mom was a good actress.
Gia Coppola
#98. I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure.
Francis Ford Coppola
#100. The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.
Roman Coppola
