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Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.

Francis Ford Coppola

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: April 7, 1939

Topics

Time Money Think New Movies Waste

There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need be 'likeable' or 'sympathetic'. It is surely more important that they be human, no? More crucial that they breathe?

Character Important More Human Need

The second-class couple is far closer to what the audience is today. It's who we are.

Today Audience Far Who Closer

I want to be a voice for the thousands of women in our community who work hard, play by the rules, and still are struggling to get ahead.

Work Women Community Work Hard Voice

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

Time Brain Enough Play Get Like

Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view.

Me World Isolation View Suicide

Marley Coffee is dedicated to my father's dream to return to the farmlands, to offer our family treasures to the world.

Family Father Coffee World Dream

I used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody.

Michael Learned

Myself Pride House Never Used Fact

If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.

Compassion Childhood Parents People

We all had our reservations about possibly overdoing it but, you know, the script was great. Basically it stuck to the formula that worked for the first two movies, and for that reason I think this works as well.

Great Think You Know Movies First

I always want to just stay humble, and I always want to keep climbing.

Humble Want Always Stay Climbing

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

Life My Life Doing Said Been Just

In the old days, a star was someone up there - you know, Greta Garbo - but a telly star was somebody you could approach.

Someone You Know Old Up Days

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