Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

"Art depends on luck and talent."

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"I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing."

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"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 will be lost."

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"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."

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"When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'"

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"I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic."

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"As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work."

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"I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be."

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"We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane."

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"We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food."

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"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."

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"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians."

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

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