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Francis Ford Coppola

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VICTORIA GOTTI Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cine...
CRISPIN GLOVER Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't a...
JOHN C. REILLY When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.
GASPARD ULLIEL 'Cinema Paradiso' is a fantastic film, I love that.
FREDDIE HIGHMORE There's something magical about film, it's the ultimate for me, because it's kind of per...
PAUL MERTON Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrat...
AL PACINO John Ford made it possible for anyone who worked with him to actually be the person. Of all the film...
KATE PHILLIPS Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return ...
JOHNNY DEPP But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
ISAAC HANSON Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of act...
JACOB BATALON I prefer the Telugu film industry, as women are respected more than they are in the Tamil film indus...
KAJAL AGGARWAL In narrative cinema, a certain terminology has already been established: 'film noir,' 'W...
JONAS MEKAS Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended...
DIRK BENEDICT A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'...
CLEMENCE POESY The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experien...
CHIWETEL EJIOFOR I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it b...
ADRIAN GRENIER When you're in love, you want to tell the world. My lifelong love affair with science
CARL SAGAN I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always ha...
WONG KAR-WAI I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who ...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA You can't make anything without making mistakes, do you know what I mean? Robert De Niro's i...
JAMES CORDEN With independent film, simply because they don't have the money to make a big-budget film, they&...
SEYMOUR CASSEL Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think...
BARBARA BROCCOLI E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the ...
J. G. BALLARD I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a fil...
PETER JACKSON When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film ca...
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL It's one of the most beautiful things in the world, to go off and make a film. At the heart of i...
CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
ALFRED KAZIN It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he...
TOBY JONES It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is ...
BIPASHA BASU It's never easy getting an independent film made and distributed - even when it's easy.
PAUL DINELLO Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema'...
BRYAN SINGER What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, S...
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - c...
RAMI MALEK I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.
JENIFER LEWIS Signature film-making seems rather dull to me; it's about finding something you can do something...
DAVID MACKENZIE Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about “shit”. It is hardly original. Hollywood has made sh...
DEAN CAVANAGH There's a thing about film composing and conducting in my family.
DAVID NEWMAN Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas ...
STEVEN BOCHCO Thank you for embracing our film about love and tolerance and truth.
CATHY SCHULMAN You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.
CHRIS FABRY It's a very heartwarming film about a porn star (who) reconnects with his family. It's not a porn fi...
COREY EUBANKS We all learn every day, and that's the magic about film making.
MICHELLE YEOH I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.
LESLIE CARON There's no wrong way to experience a film.
VERA FARMIGA The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It&#...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I wanted to make a film about my dad, a sort of love letter, and explain what I understood of his ci...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.
ALAIN RESNAIS With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there&#...
DAN FUTTERMAN What's the point of doing a great character in a bad film? Instead, I want audiences to thorough...
HANSIKA MOTWANI The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different polit...
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I probably learned, being in 'Taxi Driver' before I made my first film, I would come to the ...
ALBERT BROOKS I did a film called 'Worlds Apart' about a Jehovah's Witness. I was the love interest - ...
PILOU ASBAEK I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean...
DANNY BOYLE The most important film I made, in terms of its subject and the great responsibility I had as an act...
CHRISTOPHER LEE If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genr...
GEORGE A. ROMERO Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls...
BUCK HENRY Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.
KEVIN SPACEY Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you ...
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN Hits and flops will come and go. But what stays with you is the experience you had while shooting a ...
SONAKSHI SINHA Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,' and that's the only fi...
ALAN RICKMAN Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.
JARED LETO Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA There's a big difference between the independent film world and the Hollywood film world, and I ...
AVA DUVERNAY When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't belie...
EMRAAN HASHMI I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the V...
ANDY SERKIS We'll be talking about which [participants] liked better, how film adaptations work and what you can...
DR. MATT WILLEN I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised ...
DANNY ELFMAN It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who kn...
HENRY FONDA If you are making a film about a very famous individual you live or die by the person that's going t...
TAYLOR HACKFORD I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about ...
GEORGE LUCAS The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's l...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project...
KELLY MACDONALD For Greek cinema, this is a very high-budget film. Hollywood producers, as they have done throughout...
NEOVI KARAKATSANIS But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. T...
ERROL MORRIS You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.
ALAN RUDOLPH I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tr...
KAREL REISZ Thank you to all the members of the Academy for embracing our film about love, and about tolerance, ...
CATHY SCHULMAN For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting vi...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting vi...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Every good war film, if you want to use that phrase - I don't think it's a good phrase, but ...
MICHAEL CIMINO [Although the film ends in Guido's humiliation and the collapse of the production, 8½ is far from d...
JOHN BOORMAN When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN 'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film ...
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to b...
LAURA LINNEY The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what t...
IMTIAZ ALI I'm very picky about what I'll do and the message the film has in it.
RANDY WAYNE I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a Worl...
DIANE KRUGER We have this film that we hope to finance, it's called 'Southern Rights.' It's a doc...
JOHN LEGEND The one mistake you must never make is to agree to make a film or sign on to film that you don't...
PAUL GREENGRASS Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able ...
ELISABETH SHUE Indian cinema needs all ingredients like emotion, action, sentiment and humour; it's not easy. I...
PAWAN KALYAN An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting...
DAVID LYNCH Bill Gates recently picked up the ukulele. And Warren Buffett is a huge ukulele fan. I even got to s...
JAKE SHIMABUKURO We tend to want to do films about things we know nothing about. It allows us to fall in love with ou...
DAYNA GOLDFINE People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the wee...
CARLO PONTI 'The Wine of Summer' is a beautiful film about love lost and found, and the complexities of ...
KELSEY CHOW Directing, I realize, on film is far more personal, you know. Cinema really is a director's medium. ...
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HARRISON FORD Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the huma...
HARRISON FORD I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescu...
HARRISON FORD Resentments and grudges are two of the main culprits that perpetuate cycles of self-abuse and victim...
DEBBIE FORD Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
HENRY FORD You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
HENRY FORD I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Purita...
TOM FORD Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...
HENRY FORD There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the ...
HENRY FORD If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
HENRY FORD In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo...
RICHARD FORD I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I...
TOM FORD I started to dance and kind of entertained the crowd when I wasn't on the job, and the people seemed...
AL FORD I've been dancing all my life. I even won a contest at the Apollo Theatre in 1968.
AL FORD They've been putting it in for four years. They all are special girls who respect the program ..I'm ...
AL FORD They're in my league, I've seen them for four years, and they're special kids. You don't wake up one...
AL FORD I can understand if he was a bit agitated. But at the same time we don't have an aggressive audience...
AL FORD Whenever you exert that much energy coming back, it's so hard getting over the hump. Defensively, we...
AL FORD She is the catalyst, the quarterback, she is the engine and everybody else feeds off of her. I can?t...
AL FORD It?s amazing. I knew she could shoot the ball. Sometimes I think it?s a confidence level for her and...
AL FORD We played hard. We gave it our best shot. We were hoping to come in here and steal one like (Eastern...
AL FORD On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember wh...
HARRISON FORD Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
HENRY FORD Growth is usually uncomfortable. If you're looking for comfort, you will more than likely feel t...
DEBBIE FORD There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstan...
TOM FORD Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
FORD FRICK I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
FORD FRICK Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
FORD FRICK Keep your eye on the ball.
FORD FRICK Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
FORD FRICK Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
FORD FRICK Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as we...
FORD FRICK Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
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