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Danh ngôn của Francis Ford Coppola (Sứ mệnh: 2)

Art depends on luck and talent.
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.
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.'
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.
We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.
Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.
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.
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.
As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.
It takes no imagination to live within your means.
I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.
I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.
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.
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.
It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.
I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.