Top 110 Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.

When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.

Movie-wise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal.

You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.