241 Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience – in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.

Wine is so much more than a beverage. It’s a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.

I’ve been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I’ve financed myself.

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.

I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it’s harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.

There’s nothing creative about living within your means.

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.

Listen, if there’s one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it’s that I don’t know anything about human nature.

I like simplicity; I don’t need luxury.