I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.
Francis Ford CoppolaI wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
Francis Ford CoppolaI was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.
Francis Ford CoppolaI think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
Francis Ford CoppolaThe 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.
Francis Ford Coppola