241 Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

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.