With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just don't have that luxury. I have a babysitter for three hours a day, which is how long I have to write.


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'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always t...
ROBERT COPPOLA SCHWARTZMAN
You don’t have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will ...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can ...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
I think it was more like the original Francis before The Godfather who just wanted to make personal ...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and s...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is diff...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he ...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audi...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too inst...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute f...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies th...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
The Outsiders: The Complete Novel
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your pe...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Ironically, 'Apocalypse Now' was a great, great success and remains to this day a classic -- and rea...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand bet...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
I have come here to rediscover myself as an artist.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
I think for me, the showdown was when my granddaughter's class asked me to come and show the film an...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
There was a little bit of tittering when the young boys were in bed, partly because they were such b...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results a...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie producti...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as o...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a m...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, tha...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
It's a parable, it's a fable. It's almost like an intellectual Twilight Zone , ... In a way it's lik...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
The book is inherently difficult to adapt to the screen, and we've never quite found the right combi...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
To me, it was fun, ... To them, it was a life-and-death career thing.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Tucker
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I do the things I love on the theory that ? there might be other people enjoying the same things tha...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little pr...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make ...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal res...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everythin...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns wer...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old mo...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
My company and people think I'm wacky when I have an idea... I know if I have an idea, no one wi...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional...
ROBERT COPPOLA SCHWARTZMAN
When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the pape...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make th...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA