241 Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

The essence of cinema is editing.

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

Work on nothing less than epic scale

It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.