Francis Ford Coppola Zitate auf Englisch

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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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Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

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Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

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I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.

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I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

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I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

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George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.

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Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

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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.

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The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

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By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start.

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I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.

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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.

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That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

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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.

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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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I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

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When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.

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All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.

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I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

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Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.

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I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

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Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.

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

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People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

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I probably have genius. But no talent.

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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 sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.

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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.

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I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

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Movie-wise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time.

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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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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 films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.

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I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

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