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The essence of cinema is editi...

The essence of cinema is editing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I always think upon Lee Strasb...

I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure.

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

An essential element of any ar...

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

But who said art has to cost m...

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

The very earliest people who m...

The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

So give yourself that chance t...

So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite.

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

One of the most important tool...

One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes.

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

I'm very proud of my flops, as...

I'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

You don't have to specialize -...

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

Francis Coppola 191 quotes

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