Francis Coppola Quotations

I have come here to rediscover myself as an artist.

I think it was more like the original Francis before The Godfather who just wanted to make personal films and use sensible-sized crews and equipment.

Ironically, 'Apocalypse Now' was a great, great success and remains to this day a classic -- and really is one of the things that earns the money that supports my family, ... But at the time, when 'Apocalypse Now' was actually about to come out, I was very worried about it.

(We) were there with our tongues out over Diane Lane. If it hadn't been for her dad being there, we would have drawn and quartered her.

To me, it was fun, ... To them, it was a life-and-death career thing.

There was a little bit of tittering when the young boys were in bed, partly because they were such beautiful kids. But of course, brothers have slept together in beds for hundreds of years.

I see this all as steps on the path to something. Maybe I'll be more qualified to do 'Megalopolis' if I really digest this film. In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

It's a parable, it's a fable. It's almost like an intellectual Twilight Zone , ... In a way it's like a Hitchcock picture and Tim Roth is the Jimmy Stewart, the guy who gets caught up in something fascinating and big.

The book is inherently difficult to adapt to the screen, and we've never quite found the right combination of director and writer to do it justice until now.

I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.

I do the things I love on the theory that ? there might be other people enjoying the same things that I enjoy, ... And I just gravitate to what I think is authentic, pleasurable and has quality.