Francis Ford Coppola Quotes
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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Every second I have spare, I'm with my kids.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
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I want to keep Flume kind of experimental, weird, melodic, pretty.
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It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.
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Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
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I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.
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I consider myself a little weak.
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.
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Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to 'The Today Show,' and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.
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We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.
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147, on the situation in Greece: 'imminent collapse due to mounting guerrilla activity, supplied and directed from outside, economic chaos, and the Greek governmental inability to meet the crisis.'
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Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.
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Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
