Top 25 Francis Ford Coppola Movie Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I know she comes across as annoying to begin with," he said. "But once you've got to know her a bit better, you'll find it makes no difference whatsoever.
K.J. Parker
#4. You see, we all have dreams and we chase after them, as if they're too good to be true, always in the distance. I'm drawn to this because it shows if we believe, we know our dreams are already inside of us, bursting to come out for others to enjoy. At least, that's what I think.
Jennifer Hanes
#6. You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.
Francis Ford Coppola
#8. I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.
Francis Ford Coppola
#9. I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.
Francis Ford Coppola
#11. Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
Al Pacino
#12. Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#13. We finally settled on Francis Ford Coppola's version of Dracula, which, unfortunately, Gabriel seemed to think was a comedy. I think it was the combination of Keanu Reeves's British accent and Gary Oldman's elderly Count Dracula hairstyle. They're just misleading.
Molly Harper
#14. When the ego dominates in organizations, even spiritual organizations, there is usually a big drama or upheaval of some kind, and self-destruction begins.
Eckhart Tolle
#15. 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
#16. When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.
Francis Ford Coppola
#17. Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.
Francis Ford Coppola
#18. Movie-wise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time.
Francis Ford Coppola
#19. People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.
Francis Ford Coppola
#20. 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
#21. If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes ... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.
Francis Ford Coppola
#22. 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.
Francis Ford Coppola
#23. I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.
Francis Ford Coppola
#24. 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
#25. If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.
Romola Garai
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