Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppolais an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. He was considered to be the central figure of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth7 April 1939
CountryUnited States of America
unions glue paper
When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.
nice giving together
So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite.
genius talent
I probably have genius. But no talent.
circus directors inventing
A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.
successful insanity wish
Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.
stories directors titles
I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.
movie golf play
I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.
crafts students illusion
Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.
daughter heart italian
I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into my work, I get lost sometimes in bizarre things - it's my Italian heritage.
movie jobs writing
They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.
taken risk age
When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.
movie hate people
People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.
successful unique likes
Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.
job
I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director.