Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

Godfather' is based on a book and it is one of the best films.

I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.

'The Godfather' is the talismanic giant that hangs over everything in the gangster genre.

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

Anybody who was in 'The Godfather' is a tough guy.

That godfather of the modern action blockbuster, 'The Godfather,' is entirely character driven, propelled by the transformation of a crime lord's youngest son, who breaks bad when he evolves from white-sheep war hero to blood-soaked inheritor of his father's empire.

You know one scene I always think about is in 'The Godfather', when Marlon Brando's in the hospital. Al Pacino arrives there and enlists the help of the baker to protect his father. The two of them stand outside and the baker fiddles with a cigarette lighter, but Pacino's hands are rock steady. That's when we sort of realize that he can do this.

I love the first Godfather movie, part one. And two.

When I was 16 I'd watch 'The Godfather,' but I didn't think, 'Right, I'm going to go down the barber's and get some protection money off him.'

When 'The Godfather' comes on, any time of the day or night, I'm lost because I'm incapable of turning it off.

I love 'The Godfather.'

'The Godfather' has been a film which has influenced me a lot.

Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

War not only teaches what man can be, but it teaches also what he must not be.

I'm not saying 'The Godfather' trilogy was bad - because it was brilliant - but that was fiction. It was based on reality.

'The Godfather' illustrated the family values - the reality that it was really a family thing, honor and tradition. It wasn't just a single-dimension thing.

'The Godfather' changed the way gangsters acted.

Where do I begin with 'The Godfather?' It's like explaining why the 'Bible' is so popular. I'll always remember seeing the first one because it was the only time I went to the movies with my grandfather.

The 'Godfather I' and 'II,' those were real straight movies in my life. At the same time, so is 'Five Deadly Venoms,' if we go into kung-fu movies.

I wish I'd played Coriolanus.

I have to have the mindset of Vito Corleone in everything I do.