“The very earliest people who made film were magicians.” PeopleMadeFilmMagician Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“Of all the human evils, of which we have thousands of years of record and our own contemporary experiences, the most horrible evil of all is hypocrisy. It's this idea that there are those who do bad and there are those who do good, when, in fact, even the people who supposedly do good are saying they do good to mask the fact that they do evil.” PeopleYearsHumansIdeasFactsEvilRecordsHorribleContemporaryHypocrisyMask Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“A lot of the young people make beautiful films or big films or are able to finance them, but they can't get anyone to distribute them, they can't get anyone to see them, so they go to these thousands of film festivals. So I still believe that even though a young kid might be able to make a masterpiece or something that changes the direction of cinema, the issue of how to get it to people is still not solved.” PeopleBelieveStillsBigsMightKidsAbleBeautifulFilmYoungIssuesFinanceCinemaMasterpieceFestivalsI Still BelieveFilm Festivals Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.” PeopleWellsMy OwnFiguresSloppy Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camera and for once the so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever - and it will really become an art form.” PeopleLittlesArtBeautifulFilmFormGirlFatherForeverOne DayCamerasFatsDestroyedOhioProfessionalismGreat HopeFat Girl Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.” PeopleThinkingMadeFilmMagicCinemaMovieFogMagician Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“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.” PeopleKindMomentsTogetherEmotionalEssenceExtraordinaryCombinationCinemaEditingAlchemy Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.” PeopleWritingYearsOriginalsAdmireAstonishingScreenplaysWoody Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.” PeopleRealProblemFilmmakerReal ProblemsSloppy Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.” PeopleIfsRoomsWillingGoes OnElementsArmyProductionsPlanesExpensiveHotelTicketsColleaguesGasolineHotel Rooms Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.” PeopleFilmNumbersCrossesItalianAustralianAustralian Films Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsMadeWantedFilmHateActorsWorstChecksMovieThis DayRobinsOld Movie Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal.” PeopleKindYoungOpportunityDealsResponsibilityFairsRoger Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.” PeopleInvolvedPressureStudiosProducersUncertaintyInitialsDebutDistributorsFinanciers Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“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.” PeopleChildrenTelevisionFrightenedIsolatedParalyzedPolioPolio Vaccine Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.” PeopleIfsMistake Author:Francis Ford Coppola
