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.
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.
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.
coppola family love
We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun.