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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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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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 cold deflation of crapula…
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They just don’t trust people. They don’t trust individuals, they don’t trust any change that should serve and benefit people, and they try to stop it.
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To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.
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Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.
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I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.
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The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.
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I think I wanted to do something that retained the improvised chaos of 'Mamma Mia' the theatre show which set it apart from all the slick packaged productions.
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The more you think of harmony, of health, of success, of happiness, of things that are desirable, of things that are beautiful, of things that have true worth, the more the mind will tend to build all those things in yourself, provided, of course, that all such thinking is subjective.
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Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
