241 Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

I always found the film world unpleasant. It’s all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

The secret of life is to say yes all the time, because when you’re old, you don’t want to say, ‘I wish I’d done this, I wish I had done that.

Work on nothing less than epic scale.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn’t like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I’ll continue to subsidize my own work.

So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you’re comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what’s a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite.

Upon that second reading, much of the book fell away in my mind, revealing a story that was a metaphor for American capitalism in the tale of a great king with three sons: the oldest was given his passion and aggressiveness, the second his sweet nature and childlike qualities, and the third his intelligence, cunning, and coldness.

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.