Eleanor Coppola Quotes

United States, Film Maker
May 4, 1936

Eleanor Coppola is an American documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer. She is married to director Francis Ford Coppola. She is most known for her 1991 documentary film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse as well as other documentaries chronicling the films of her husband and children. Coppola currently lives on her family's winery in Napa Valley, California.

Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

Eleanor Coppola
- Time
- Movies
It's scary to watch someone you love go into the center of himself and confront his fears, fear of failure, fear of death, fear of going insane. You have to fail a little, die a little, go insane a little, to come out the other side.

Eleanor Coppola
- Death
- Watch
- Little
I was thinking about time, how on a movie set the shot is maintained in the same time no matter how many takes and hours pass. Reflectors and lights are added, footprints are smoothed away, so that there are no telltale clues as the day wears on. When the shot is finished and the plugs are pulled, time seems to leap forward in a matter of seconds. Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

Eleanor Coppola
- Thinking
- Movie
- Light
I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.

Eleanor Coppola
- Art
- Paris
- Student