241 Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.

'The Godfather' changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely made me have an older man's film career when I was 29.

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.

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.