I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes – which is what I always try to do in every movie – then I feel like I’m doing my job.
Don’t lose the best thing in your life just because you are not sure.
I don’t know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking ’cause my wife left me.
You aren’t a true internationalist until you’ve supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen.
Just because you’re a man doesn’t mean that you can’t raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don’t give up no matter what they say.
I love England – it’s no secret.
I’m not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.
I try to make two movies a year. To me, that’s not too much. On top of that, I like to work.
I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business.
I really would like to be able to face all my superstitions that may have existed and walk under the ladder and do everything you’re not supposed to do.
Yeah, my real name is Coppola. I changed it because they’d think I was some nepotism-oriented kid.
I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.
With my name in cement, I feel actualised. – On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard.
I’m always going to judge somebody on their work ethic, and whether or not they made me feel something, or whether or not I felt they did a good job. To me, it’s important to try to block anything personal out and look at the performance, in any field.
There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That’s one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11?
I don’t like it when people on the street say “smile” or “cheer up.” It’s a real cheap line. I’m feeling good. I’m feeling real grateful for everything. It’s a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they’re wrong.
I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don’t want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus – a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.
I love art, I love music. I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to Beethoven and have a more classical, traditional approach. Why not be able to do that with film performance?
I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people’s minds. That’s pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.
Nobody wants to watch perfection.