“Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.”
“I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.”
Francis Ford Coppola
“Art depends on luck and talent.”
Francis Ford Coppola
“It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline...”
Francis Ford Coppola
“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.”
Francis Ford Coppola
“I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A t...”
Francis Ford Coppola