241 Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something...

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

When you make a film it is like asking yourself a question. When it is finished, you know the answer. Ultimately with all of cinema, we are just trying to learn about ourselves. I have always used the opportunity to make a film to learn more about myself, which I am still doing.

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays.

There's nothing creative about living within your means.

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water.