Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

Francis Ford Coppola

• Fail
• Fortunate
• Ambitious

Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn’t have very strong personal resonance.

Francis Ford Coppola

• Movie
• Personal
• To Do

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience – in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.

Francis Ford Coppola

• Audience
• Sound
• Effect

I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn’t want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when you’re a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.

Francis Ford Coppola

• Film
• Write
• Works

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Francis Ford Coppola

• Artist
• Doubt
• Doing

I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.

Francis Ford Coppola

• Game
• Give
• Filmmaking