“I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.” StoriesWantedPlaywrightTelling Stories Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.” WritingBookWantedDirect Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.” WorldMadeWantedSchoolGirlTeacherWonderfulButtonsHeartbreakingPolioPolio Vaccine Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“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.” WayI CanWantedRememberFallTalentTearsWeakPlaywrightSixteenSeventeenFalling Asleep Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.” WritingCareWantedJobsSpeakFictionScience FictionDialogueRoger Author: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 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.” MenWantWritingBigsWantedFilmStudentsComfortDirectorsCooksBudgetsColleaguesFilm Students Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“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.” WantedUsedTerribleScientistMathInventorLove To ReadUsed To Love 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
“Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.” WantKindWantedEnjoyBornDealsDoubtOriginalsCinemaNovelistsFilmmakerOur TimeWho We AreOur Relationship Author:Francis Ford Coppola
