Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

With 'Girls,' I have been able to plug into almost everything I've felt that's personal and sensitive.

Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.

My work is intensely personal.

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

All of the songs on 'Kiddo' were a part of my soul; they're songs that I could never give away.

There's me in every character I put on the pages.

My work is has always been very, very personal.

The people in my songs are all me.

My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

When I approach my music and my music videos, obviously all of the subjects and stories that I tell come from an honest, truthful place and the experiences that I've had.

I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate with me and see what happens.

All of my songs are autobiographical.

To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically.

Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

People should listen to my music if they just want to know me better.

'Hedwig' isn't particularly based on me, but I think that it is autobiographical in terms of emotion.

All my films represent my own needs and wants.

You know the way you tell your life story to a friend? I just told mine to a piano.

Mostly everything I've ever sung comes from a personal place.

My passion for painting is so sacred and personal to me.

I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.

Here's the thing: we don't write music for a universal statement; we just share our experiences. And that's all it is. It's always raw and very authentic.