When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.
in Francis Ford Coppola QuotesThe professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.
in Francis Ford Coppola QuotesUsually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.
in Francis Ford Coppola QuotesIronically, 'Apocalypse Now' was a great, great success and remains to this day a classic -- and really is one of the things that earns the money that supports my family, ... But at the time, when 'Apocalypse Now' was actually about to come out, I was very worried about it.
in Francis Ford Coppola QuotesThe book is inherently difficult to adapt to the screen, and we've never quite found the right combination of director and writer to do it justice until now.
in Francis Ford Coppola QuotesAnything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos
in Francis Ford Coppola QuotesWhen I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was You're a Big Boy Now.
in Francis Ford Coppola QuotesWe were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.
in Francis Ford Coppola QuotesTen 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.
in Francis Ford Coppola QuotesWhen I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book. when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.
in Francis Ford Coppola QuotesYou ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.
in Francis Ford Coppola QuotesI think it was more like the original Francis before The Godfather who just wanted to make personal films and use sensible-sized crews and equipment.
in Francis Ford Coppola Quotes[We] were there with our tongues out over Diane Lane. If it hadn't been for her dad being there, we would have drawn and quartered her.
in Francis Ford Coppola QuotesIt's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
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