241 Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

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.

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.