I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business.

The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.'

I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.

You aren't a true internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen.

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.