Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

I think and that is all that I am.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create - as a tortured artist. I've learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work.

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

You can't be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad - there's something in the middle of them, and that's really what you are and that's going to make you the best dad - not when you try to be one or the other.

My life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront.

Parenting three children at the same time has helped me grow as a filmmaker. It taught me to be more empathetic and understand what people want from me.

I see a skill developing of writing about not just feelings that I'm feeling, but things that I deeply care about as well.

My brain is a pretty intense, wacky place, and that's kind of where Miranda lives. But that's why I like the rest of my life and my stuff to be more clean, white, and simple without a lot of clutter.

Creative people are more emotionally charged, so I am a super sensitive person.

I really try to balance my feminine and masculine energy when I write.

If I find myself being too earnest and sentimental and hyperbolic and simplistic, which is definitely a tendency I have, then I bring in this perverse henchman.

As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.

I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.

Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.