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

Death is what makes life an event.

- Francis Ford Coppola

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

- 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.

- Francis Ford Coppola

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

- 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 …

- Francis Ford Coppola

Work on nothing less than epic scale

- Francis Ford Coppola

Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form …

- Francis Ford Coppola

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 …

- Francis Ford Coppola