Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

Francis Ford Coppola

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• Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Different
  • Air
  • Gun

• Where love is, there God is also.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Feeling
  • Military
  • Last

• To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Up
  • American
  • Government

• What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Money
  • Bad

• When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • God
  • Smile
  • Vanity

• I'm a big fan of Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars – that's my next level. You've got to dream. People have always tried to shoot me down for wanting to be a big worldwide star. But why not? You have to broaden your horizons and put yourself out there.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Star
  • Fan

• It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Believe
  • Reading

• I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Career

• What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Use
  • Box

• When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'

  

  Kate Mara
  • Me
  • Film
  • Say

• Football's the big cheese, if you like. It's easy to have a swipe. There's a lot of footballers, and when they fall foul, they become big news.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Fall
  • Football
  • Easy

• Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great

• Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

  

  John Berger

• Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.

  

  Edward Glaeser
  • World
  • Change
  • Cities

• Every mistake that you make, or every thing that you might regret, you don't need to necessarily regret it, because it can be a step forward. You just move forward and let them go because there will be a lot of bad auditions, and there will be a lot of negative responses. But that won't last forever.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Bad
  • Forever
  • Mistake

• You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.

  

  Christopher Moore
  • Life
  • Art
  • Book

• I’m always feeling death, and that is a part of life. When you know a lot of people, you will always experience death.

  

  Damon Dash
  • People
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

  

  Francis Ford Coppola
  • World
  • Film
  • Unpleasant