241 Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

"But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?"

"I still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone."

"So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less."

"Today's winemakers still worry about quality."

"The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camera and for once the so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever - and it will really become an art form."

"The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old."

"The very earliest people who made film were magicians."

"Art depends on luck and talent."

"Everyone knows the phenomenon of trying to hold your breath underwater - how at first it's alright and you can handle it, and then as it gets closer and closer to the time when you must breathe, how urgent the need becomes, the lust and the hunger to breathe. And then the panic sets in when you begin to think that you won't be able to breathe - and finally, when you take in air and the anxiety subsides...that's what it's like to be a vampire and need blood."

"Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food."