Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

I think C, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

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• When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

  

  Daniel Craig
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• Low budget movies make lots of money.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.

  

  Dan Byrd
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• There's nothing more American than movies.

  

  Adam McKay
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• And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

  

  Halle Berry
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• Movies are too literal.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.

  

  Dakota Johnson
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• I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

  

  Isaac Hayes
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• I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.

  

  T. J. Perkins
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• The first thing I learned about weapons is respect, and that carries into movies as well. If you're on set and you're dealing with weapons, live or not, you respect the weapon; you know how to handle it appropriately.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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• Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.

  

  Manish Dayal
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• It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'

  

  Sally Field
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• Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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• I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.

  

  Ira Glass
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• I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

  

  Vincent Cassel
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• Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

  

  Oren Peli
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• I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
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• Everything comes back to the horse, which is why I love it. You put your ego aside, and you concentrate on getting the best performance out of this creature.

  

  Edie Campbell
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• Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true.

  

  Elliott Sober
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• If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.

  

  Ian St. John
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• I think C, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

  

  Francis Ford Coppola
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