Francis Ford Coppola quote: "The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it."

I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and d...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of pe...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an Amer...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Art depends on luck and talent.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuc...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. ...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characterist...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your ca...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who ...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful gir...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I u...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative thing...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the fin...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather hav...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

You dont have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will ...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can ...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I think it was more like the original Francis before The Godfather who just wanted to make personal ...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and s...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is diff...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he ...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audi...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too inst...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute f...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies th...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

The Outsiders: The Complete Novel
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your pe...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Ironically, 'Apocalypse Now' was a great, great success and remains to this day a classic -- and rea...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand bet...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I have come here to rediscover myself as an artist.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I think for me, the showdown was when my granddaughter's class asked me to come and show the film an...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

There was a little bit of tittering when the young boys were in bed, partly because they were such b...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results a...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie producti...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as o...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a m...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, tha...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

It's a parable, it's a fable. It's almost like an intellectual Twilight Zone , ... In a way it's lik...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

The book is inherently difficult to adapt to the screen, and we've never quite found the right combi...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

To me, it was fun, ... To them, it was a life-and-death career thing.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Tucker
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I do the things I love on the theory that ? there might be other people enjoying the same things tha...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little pr...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make ...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal res...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everythin...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns wer...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old mo...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

My company and people think I'm wacky when I have an idea... I know if I have an idea, no one wi...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the pape...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make th...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I like things that are hand made - but personally for a man, I'm not interested in fashion that ...
ROMAN COPPOLA

I try to do a variety of physical activities. I spin, take classes at Barry's Boot Camp, go to t...
ALICIA COPPOLA

I like the pharmacy makeup. I always get stuck in that aisle... I've always liked looking at it.
GIA COPPOLA

I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be c...
GIA COPPOLA

Costumes say a lot about a character. When it came to 'Palo Alto,' it was important for me t...
GIA COPPOLA

The hardest thing on 'Palo Alto' was letting go because I kept working on it, trying to make...
GIA COPPOLA

Years go by. I go here, I go there, I have all sorts of adventures, and then I look back and say, &#...
ROMAN COPPOLA

Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.
GIA COPPOLA

When I graduated, I felt a little burned out on taking pictures after so many years of churning out ...
GIA COPPOLA

I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories...
ROMAN COPPOLA

It's great because all of my friends from elementary school are still my closest friends.
GIA COPPOLA

The book is a true story of a woman who survived the ordeal of Nazi Germany. Her daughter and son-in...
ANN COPPOLA

Panelists will speak and answer questions about challenges they met as women and how they persevered...
ANN COPPOLA

This book is about a real-life female baseball player who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
ANN COPPOLA

At the library, we have American Girl meetings every month. They're very popular.
ANN COPPOLA

This is a dynamic performer who performs one-woman shows. We're very happy to have her, especially a...
ANN COPPOLA

The whole event was designed toward pampering women and teaching them how to relax.
ANN COPPOLA

With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just do...
SOFIA COPPOLA

I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these author...
GIA COPPOLA

Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as mu...
GIA COPPOLA

As a teenager, I wanted to be sophisticated and avant-garde, and I was really judgmental. But when y...
GIA COPPOLA

The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director mysel...
ROMAN COPPOLA

I am very much a person who appreciates perennial things. Things like a Lacoste shirt, a Clarks dese...
ROMAN COPPOLA

I wanted to be a bartender for a bit.
GIA COPPOLA

I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I coul...
GIA COPPOLA

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a pa...
ROMAN COPPOLA

I'm a curious person. I pursue things based on what sparks my interest. I'm not thinking abo...
ROMAN COPPOLA

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.
GIA COPPOLA

I remember people - not my family - always asking, 'Oh, so are you going to make movies when you...
GIA COPPOLA

When I was younger, I had pink underneath my hair, and I got detention. I went to an all-girls schoo...
GIA COPPOLA

I have a lot of game apps I need to delete.
GIA COPPOLA

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in differen...
SOFIA COPPOLA

Tokyo is so hectic, but inside the hotel it's very silent. And the design of it is interesting. It's...
SOFIA COPPOLA

Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fa...
GIA COPPOLA

I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airpo...
ROMAN COPPOLA

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important i...
SOFIA COPPOLA

My main object is to write, to keep learning. I always try to perfect my composition. But I do like ...
CARMINE COPPOLA

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ...
SOFIA COPPOLA

Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which ...
ROMAN COPPOLA

The short film project I just finished for W Hotels and Intel, I didn't have my script finished ...
ROMAN COPPOLA

My family and I are so close, it's important to have a close knit relationship and to make time ...
GIA COPPOLA

My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the ...
ALICIA COPPOLA

I've been going to the same person for haircuts since I was thirteen.
GIA COPPOLA

This baby comes out of you and there's no handbook. They hand you this child and say, 'Don&#...
ALICIA COPPOLA

I've always loved clothes, especially handbags and shoes. I'd rather save my money on clothi...
ALICIA COPPOLA

My grandpa told me, 'Learn to love anxiety, because it never goes away in moviemaking.'
GIA COPPOLA

If I were to save one possession in a fire, it would have to be my dad's camera, an old, broken ...
GIA COPPOLA

I have written symphonic poems and chamber music. It is my way of personal expression.
CARMINE COPPOLA

There are a lot of very flamboyant and outlandish people and attention-seekers in L.A., and I think ...
ROMAN COPPOLA

I like sugar, be it candy, this season's pumpkin chocolate chip bars, or wine. Sugar is bad for ...
ALICIA COPPOLA

I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.
GIA COPPOLA

'Virgin Suicides' was such a big movie to me as a teenage girl. It blew me away.
GIA COPPOLA

I like the camera to be still and not very shaky and have everything happen within the frame.
GIA COPPOLA

Visually, I love the setting of suburbia.
GIA COPPOLA

I'm always a sucker for a love story.
SOFIA COPPOLA

I love so many directors. I love David O. Russell. I love David Fincher, I love Alexander Payne and ...
GIA COPPOLA

He calls me desperate (on my tombstone)
I hope poetic license will allow: HUNGRY
ELI COPPOLA

I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Ba...
GIA COPPOLA

Once I found these sticker things for your nails - Sally Hansen - those were really fun to do. They&...
GIA COPPOLA

I eat very well. I cook for my family every night. We eat a variety of things, including chicken, fi...
ALICIA COPPOLA

We're thinking about it. But right now, more than ever, we've got to be very careful on how we spend...
GENE COPPOLA

There is no Ruth Eckerd Hall in Palm Harbor, so for a community like ours, libraries are serving as ...
GENE COPPOLA

The idea is to make sure when they leave with a book, they can also leave with information on some o...
GENE COPPOLA

We want to be even more relevant. We want to be here providing services that earn the tax dollars.
GENE COPPOLA

A successful library serves the immediate needs of the community. You can't fit a square in a circle...
GENE COPPOLA

The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever
SOFIA COPPOLA

That's part of show business: the moving.
CARMINE COPPOLA

When you conduct opera, you control the stage. But with a film, the film controls you.
CARMINE COPPOLA

When I was a little boy, there was no sound in the movies.
CARMINE COPPOLA

To me, there is nothing like the excitement and unique experience of a live orchestra playing.
CARMINE COPPOLA

I love to play with the gadgets that come with film.
GIA COPPOLA

I'm not a person who goes here and there. So what do I do? I knit.
VIRGINIA COPPOLA

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
FORD MADOX FORD

Upon my soul!' Tietjens said to himself, 'that girl down there is the only intelligent living soul I...
FORD MADOX FORD

I may really say that for a quarter of a century I have kept before me one unflinching aim - to regi...
FORD MADOX FORD

Well she was bright; and she danced...And my function in life was to keep that bright thing in exist...
FORD MADOX FORD

You see in such a world as this, an idealist -or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist-must be stoned t...
FORD MADOX FORD

But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, ...
FORD MADOX FORD

If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
FRANCIS

“Everytime Illegal Immigration is brought up in the Good 'Ol U.S. of part of America, 'Native Amer...
FRANCIS

Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
FRANCIS

Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
FRANCIS

Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
FRANCIS

Friends let friends wear purple.
FRANCIS

It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
FRANCIS

Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
FRANCIS

You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always t...
ROBERT COPPOLA SCHWARTZMAN

When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional...
ROBERT COPPOLA SCHWARTZMAN

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don&#...
HARRISON FORD

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and...
HARRISON FORD

It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones...
HARRISON FORD

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat...
HARRISON FORD

We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrad...
HARRISON FORD

I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was...
HARRISON FORD

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see t...
HARRISON FORD

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
HARRISON FORD

You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
HARRISON FORD

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
HARRISON FORD

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a ...
HARRISON FORD

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
HARRISON FORD

We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislo...
HARRISON FORD

I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our pr...
HARRISON FORD

Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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.
FORD FRICK

The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.

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