I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission. Francis Ford Coppola More Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola More Quotes From Francis Ford Coppola I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean. Francis Ford Coppola catholic church mean I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini. Francis Ford Coppola strong numbers father The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy. Francis Ford Coppola emotional essence editing I remember in The Conversation, they brought all these coats to me, and they said: Do you want him to look like a detective, Humphrey Bogart? Do you want him to look like a blah blah blah. I didn't know, and said the theme is 'privacy' and chose the plastic coat you could see through. So knowing the theme helps you make a decision when you're not sure which way to go. Francis Ford Coppola knowing decision want Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives. Francis Ford Coppola different helping way I probably have genius. But no talent. Francis Ford Coppola talent genius If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas. Francis Ford Coppola sticks self ideas I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films. I didn't make that money necessarily from the film business, but I eventually made a lot of money and that's what I do. Of course, I consider myself unbelievably fortunate, and I'm pretty content with my life. Francis Ford Coppola had-enough careers kind 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. Francis Ford Coppola daughter italian heart Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine. Francis Ford Coppola eight nine directors The very earliest people who made film were magicians. Francis Ford Coppola film made people I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor. Francis Ford Coppola scientist used math I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works. Francis Ford Coppola writing men directors In America, even the critics - which is a pity - tend to genre-ize things. They have a hard time when genres get mixed. They want to categorize things. That's why I love Wes Anderson's films and the Coen Brothers, because you don't know what you're going to get, and very often you get something that you don't expect and that's just what a genre's not supposed to do. Francis Ford Coppola hard-times brother america I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can. Francis Ford Coppola movie play golf When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have. Francis Ford Coppola sixteen tears fall That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life. Francis Ford Coppola modern-life artist trying 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. Francis Ford Coppola cinema film world Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby. Francis Ford Coppola risk baby sex When 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. Francis Ford Coppola darkness heart book
