Top 110 Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun.

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.

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.

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.

Art depends on luck and talent.

I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to work, which for now is to think and read and write, so it's all a dream come true.

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.