Coppola Quotes

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

I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan. ~ Park Chan-wook

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

I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are. You know if you think about Scorsese back in the day when he was making Taxi Driver, or Coppola or Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet, they're making films where you witness violence in a real way. ~ Antoine Fuqua

Francis Coppola was very generous. We got paid a lot of money and he saw us every day, took us out every night. It was just a lot. Richard Gere was an absolute gentleman. Gregory Hines. You know, I worked with some giants and they were just so smooth. And it was the '80s. That's when people had a lot of money and it was okay to to hang out and be crazy. ~ Jackee Harry

I always look at my favourite photographs or favourite movies by James Bidgood or Sofia Coppola before I write my songs - they put me in the right frame of mind. ~ Charli XCX

The notebook was my anchor through all of it. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

I love my family's films. ~ Gia Coppola

I knew I wanted to be creative but didn't know how. ~ Gia Coppola

Honestly, this will never happen because she's so much classier than me, but I would love to work with Sofia Coppola. ~ Diablo Cody

Art depends on luck and talent. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

I don't like being in front of the camera. ~ Gia Coppola

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already. ~ Sofia 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

There are certain topics songwriters stay away from because it's hard to go there. I didn't sit down and go, 'I want to write something about my dad now.' ~ Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background. ~ Gia Coppola

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

Anything that you think is wild or fun, or can't wait to see or show your friends, go for it. ~ Roman Coppola

I think there's always this idea in your head, but you have to allow the film to take its own course. ~ Gia Coppola

We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won't let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it's obscene. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

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

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

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

The more you travel, the better you get at it. It sounds silly, but with experience you learn how to pack the right way. I remember one of my first trips abroad, travelling around Europe by rail, fresh out of high school. I brought all these books with me and a paint set. I really had too much stuff, so I've learnt to be more economical. ~ Roman Coppola

Anyone can create and put stuff out there, so then as viewers and listeners, we have access to a lot of different unique view points. ~ Gia Coppola

In America, even the critics - which is a pity - tend to genre-ize things. They have a hard time when genres get mixed. They want to categorize things. That's why I love Wes Anderson's films and the Coen Brothers, because you don't know what you're going to get, and very often you get something that you don't expect and that's just what a genre's not supposed to do. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer! ~ Roman Coppola

One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something ~ Francis Ford Coppola

I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

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

I don't see any method at all...Sir ~ Francis Ford Coppola

Usually when I get nervous and don't know how to prepare for something, I just don't do anything at all, which is not necessarily the best idea. ~ Gia Coppola

I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list. ~ Anurag Kashyap

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

I've been going to the same person for haircuts since I was thirteen. ~ Gia Coppola

I'm always a sucker for a love story. ~ Sofia Coppola

I am very much a person who appreciates perennial things. Things like a Lacoste shirt, a Clarks desert boot, Persol sunglasses and Vans shoes that have been the same forever. There are certain things that once you find it, you like it and it's done. I like Italian clothing, like suits from Battistoni and I have a shirt by Piero Albertelli. ~ Roman Coppola

I like the camera to be still and not very shaky and have everything happen within the frame. ~ Gia Coppola

It's great because all of my friends from elementary school are still my closest friends. ~ Gia Coppola

I learned from Francis Ford Coppola to treat the company like your family. ~ Mary Stuart Masterson

The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

Working with a great actor is really educational. ~ Gia Coppola

I normally wear jeans and sneakers, but given an occasion, I enjoy dressing up. ~ Gia Coppola

Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

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

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful. ~ Roman Coppola

In Italy, there are a lot of Coppolas - it's like being called Jones. No one really notices. ~ Gia Coppola

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

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

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

Upon that second reading, much of the book fell away in my mind, revealing a story that was a metaphor for American capitalism in the tale of a great king with three sons: the oldest was given his passion and aggressiveness, the second his sweet nature and childlike qualities, and the third his intelligence, cunning, and coldness. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

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

As a first-time director, you act a lot like a teenager. I made decisions because I was hotheaded. My skin broke out. I was trying to understand who I am. ~ Gia Coppola

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

My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating. ~ Gia Coppola

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.' ~ Francis Ford Coppola

We definitely have to support other female directors because there's not enough of us. ~ Gia Coppola

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

Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite. ~ Roman Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola - A man climbs a mountain and they call him a hero. I climb mountains that aren't even there. ~ Madeline Moore

Once I found these sticker things for your nails - Sally Hansen - those were really fun to do. They're really fun to do when you're bored, and it's better than painting your nails because you don't mess up. It looks really good, very professional. I tried a zebra one that was really pretty, but I always get a little bored of it. ~ Gia Coppola

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

My grandpa told me, 'Learn to love anxiety, because it never goes away in moviemaking.' ~ Gia Coppola

I probably have genius. But no talent. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her. ~ Orlando Bloom

I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager. ~ Gia Coppola

Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone. ~ Gia Coppola

Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

I love Serge Lutens orange blossom perfume; my mom got it for me. It's my favorite. It just smells clean. ~ Gia Coppola

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business. ~ 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

In high school, I didn't always relate to my friends. I was more of a spectator. ~ Gia Coppola

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes ... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

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

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

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame. ~ Gia Coppola

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

I love making movies. But it's a lot of investing your heart and soul. It can be exhausting. ~ Gia Coppola

I never really considered myself an actor because I never pursued it. ~ Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time. ~ Eleanor Coppola

I feel like I am very drawn to the short form stuff because it's just fun to be making something, and then, a week later, it's out. I will always be drawn to that kind of thing. ~ Roman Coppola

'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

My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camera and for once the so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever - and it will really become an art form. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows. ~ Roman Coppola

By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and I've done a lot of work in second unit. ~ Roman Coppola

It takes no imagination to live within your means. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

I remember looking at my daughter for the first time and wondering if that's the way my father looked at me. I could cry, because she's everything to me. I feel so blessed to be taught so much by her. ~ Alicia Coppola

Obviously if you're Coppola going into 'Apocalypse Now' off the back of the two 'Godfathers,' you're in a much better position than coming off the back of something like 'Dust Devil,' which had scarcely been released, and was pretty much lying around in film cans in different places. ~ Richard Stanley