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.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.