Francis Ford Coppola Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Strong, Father, Numbers

• 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.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Brother, Father, Musical

• The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camera and for once the so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever - and it will really become an art form.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Beautiful, Girl, Art

• I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Father, Son, Ideas

• Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Father, Son, Men

  "Five Oscars as a Producer, Director and Screenwriter". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 17, 1994.

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin