An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?
Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine. - Francis Ford Coppola
Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.
- Francis Ford Coppola
Movies are the art form most like man's imagination. - Francis Ford Coppola
Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.
The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interestin… - Francis Ford Coppola
The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interestin…
Death is what makes life an event. - Francis Ford Coppola
Death is what makes life an event.
Work on nothing less than epic scale - Francis Ford Coppola
Work on nothing less than epic scale
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 … - 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 …
I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it. - Francis Ford Coppola
I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.
You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form. - Francis Ford Coppola
You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.
It takes no imagination to live within your means. - Francis Ford Coppola
It takes no imagination to live within your means.
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