Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most. -Francis Ford Coppola Best
I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories. -Francis Ford Coppola Movies
By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start. -Francis Ford Coppola Morning
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. -Francis Ford Coppola Morning
I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button. -Francis Ford Coppola Teacher
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini. -Francis Ford Coppola Family
People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams. -Francis Ford Coppola Movies
It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again. -Francis Ford Coppola Age
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. -Francis Ford Coppola Movies
Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film. -Francis Ford Coppola Learning
You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost. -Francis Ford Coppola Courage
We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food. -Francis Ford Coppola Music
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing. -Francis Ford Coppola Art
I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic. -Francis Ford Coppola Imagination
Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful. -Francis Ford Coppola Patriotism
The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me. -Francis Ford Coppola Failure
I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be. -Francis Ford Coppola Money
I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films. -Francis Ford Coppola Finance
As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work. -Francis Ford Coppola Money
