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.
Francis Ford CoppolaMusic 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 CoppolaI think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!
Francis Ford CoppolaI don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
Francis Ford Coppola