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"I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'"
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water."
Quote by -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 will want to go through it. But if I persist, people will go through it."
Quote by -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 it does it in a very indirect way."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!"
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by."
Quote by -George Orson Welles
"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them."
Quote by -George W. Bush
"I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain."
Quote by -Gisele Bündchen
"Directors didn't want to work with me because I was 'too controlling.' If it had been a man, it wouldn't have meant a damn thing."
Quote by -Goldie Hawn
"I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the questions because I don't really want to know. I like not performing for a camera but giving it my best every single time whether you're close or whether you're far."
Quote by -Halle Berry
"I love my job, I love being an actor and stepping into the shoes of different characters and exploring their lives. It's enriched my life extremely. I've learned more about myself and the ways of life through being an actor."
Quote by -Hilary Swank
"Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films."
Quote by -Ja Rule
"After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go."
Quote by -Jackie Chan
"I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences."
Quote by -Jackie Chan