Francis Ford Coppola Directors Quotations

I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.