“ I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be. Francis Ford 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
“ 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 th… Francis Ford Coppola
“ I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. Francis Ford Coppola
“ When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget. Francis Ford Coppola
“ Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film. Francis Ford Coppola
“ I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead i… Francis Ford Coppola
“ 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… Francis Ford Coppola
“ We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane. Francis Ford Coppola
“ I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who co… 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
“ Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature. Francis Ford Coppola
“ 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… Francis Ford Coppola
“ We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can't steal. You will take what we give you and you will put it in your own voice and that's how you will find your vo… Francis Ford Coppola
“ I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were… Francis Ford 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
