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
mistake people ifs
If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.
drinking wine eating
Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.
gadgets basements shops
I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.
awards achievement lifetime
The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.
finding-yourself restaurants hotel
If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.
telling-stories stories wanted
I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.
cinema world film
Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.
risk elements film
To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'
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.
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.