Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that’s when you get the answer.

Francis Ford Coppola

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• I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

  

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• There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.

  

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• When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.

  

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• I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.

  

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• Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

  

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• The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet come off. The shock of that moment.

  

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• I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

  

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• I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.

  

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• Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

  

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• To get scared is something not in my personality.

  

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• I want to make my own movie.

  

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• I think one of the reasons 'Gremlins' lasts and some other films don't is because I don't think the movie has a whole lot of dated things - sure, the cars, my hair, and few things here and there that date the movie - but it takes place in a sort of everytown, in a sorta non-specific time, and that gives the movie a timeless quality.

  

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• I met Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu years ago during my college days, and I was in charge of international promotion of this movie festival he was invited to as part of the jury, and then he saw my work on a short film that was directed by a friend of mine.

  

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• To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.

  

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• When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

  

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• Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.

  

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• A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around the horror is one that people will remember and watch again and again.

  

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• I'm not really a horror movie fan.

  

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• 'My Fair Godmother's' movie rights sold to the producer who did 'Freaky Friday,' 'Princess Diaries,' and one of my favorite movies - 'Sky High.'

  

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• The question must also be raised as to whether we have the actual words of Jesus in any Gospel.

  

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• The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."

  

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• I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

  

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• Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks.

  

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• In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that’s when you get the answer.

  

  Francis Ford Coppola
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