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When newspapers started to pub...

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 Coppola 191 quotes

When that happens - when risk ...

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 Coppola 191 quotes

Without a doubt, I was born to...

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

You're in a profession in whic...

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 Coppola 191 quotes

There's nothing creative about...

There's nothing creative about living within your means.

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

It was the man's dream, and hi...

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

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

One thing that I'm sure of is ...

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 Coppola 191 quotes

Everyone knows the phenomenon ...

Everyone knows the phenomenon of trying to hold your breath underwater - how at first it's alright and you can handle it, and then as it gets closer and closer to the time when you must breathe, how urgent the need becomes, the lust and the hunger to breathe. And then the panic sets in when you begin to think that you won't be able to breathe - and finally, when you take in air and the anxiety subsides...that's what it's like to be a vampire and need blood.

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

Always make your work be perso...

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 Coppola 191 quotes

Although knowledge of structur...

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 Coppola 191 quotes

Death is what makes life an ev...

Death is what makes life an event.

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

Collaboration is like the sex ...

Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

In America, even the critics -...

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 Coppola 191 quotes

I just finished a film a few d...

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 Coppola 191 quotes

I gladly, I voluntarily gave u...

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films. I didn't make that money necessarily from the film business, but I eventually made a lot of money and that's what I do. Of course, I consider myself unbelievably fortunate, and I'm pretty content with my life.

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

I was never sloppy with other ...

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

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

Of all the human evils, of whi...

Of all the human evils, of which we have thousands of years of record and our own contemporary experiences, the most horrible evil of all is hypocrisy. It's this idea that there are those who do bad and there are those who do good, when, in fact, even the people who supposedly do good are saying they do good to mask the fact that they do evil.

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

The essence of cinema is editi...

The essence of cinema is editing.

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

A lot of the young people make...

A lot of the young people make beautiful films or big films or are able to finance them, but they can't get anyone to distribute them, they can't get anyone to see them, so they go to these thousands of film festivals. So I still believe that even though a young kid might be able to make a masterpiece or something that changes the direction of cinema, the issue of how to get it to people is still not solved.

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

If you're not allowed to exper...

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

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