Francis Ford Coppola

The 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. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#back #college #could #doing #enthusiasm

The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#considered #flag #godfather #good #good work

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#family #great #i #job #making

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

— Francis Ford Coppola

#best #going #idea #most #stuff

We do things for good reasons that are bad. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#good #reasons #things

We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#equipment #had #insane #little #money

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

#cinema #combination #during #editing #emotional

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

#book #darkness #did #heart #i

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. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#children #frightened #had #i #isolated

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#box #box office #budget #fake #horrified