Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppolais an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. He was considered to be the central figure of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth7 April 1939
CountryUnited States of America
critics figure films four life money opinion rule seem three
My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.
badly family iq low
I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
people
My company and people think I'm wacky when I have an idea... I know if I have an idea, no one will want to go through it. But if I persist, people will go through it.
changed definitely life
'The Godfather' changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely made me have an older man's film career when I was 29.
I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.
coppola family love
We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun.
job
I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director.
good
We do things for good reasons that are bad.
possible time
Movie-wise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time.
Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.
years ideas hypocrisy
Of all the human evils, of which we have thousands of years of record and our own contemporary experiences, the most horrible evil of all is hypocrisy. It's this idea that there are those who do bad and there are those who do good, when, in fact, even the people who supposedly do good are saying they do good to mask the fact that they do evil.
beautiful believe kids
A lot of the young people make beautiful films or big films or are able to finance them, but they can't get anyone to distribute them, they can't get anyone to see them, so they go to these thousands of film festivals. So I still believe that even though a young kid might be able to make a masterpiece or something that changes the direction of cinema, the issue of how to get it to people is still not solved.
important tools notes
One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes.
morning feelings isolated
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.