241 Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

"If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas."

"I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure."

"Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business."

"My film isn't about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. It's what it was really like. It was crazy. And the way we made it was very much like the way the Americans were in Vietnam. We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment and little by little we went insane."

"Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby."

"Time is the lens through which dreams are captured."

"I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days."

"Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives."

"I'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes."

"I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order."