Francis Ford Coppola

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.

If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.

It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.