241 Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

You ought to love what you’re doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.

Movies are the art form most like man’s imagination.

I loved it; I was living a dream.

Today’s winemakers still worry about quality.

When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved – the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.

If you’re a person who says yes most of the time, you’ll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I’m a sloppy filmmaker.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It’s astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

Usually, the stuff that’s your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.