Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

[Bong Joon-ho'] is quite different but technically, he is as clever as [Alfred] Hitchcock. That's saying something. In humanitarian terms, I think he is much cleverer. He is one of the best directors I've worked with. I absolutely adore working with him.

Louis Malle is maybe one of my favorite directors, but I love Tarantino.

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.'

I have worked with some great directors.

If I tried to somehow wrap my head around the fact that Francis Ford Coppola directed my first movie, there's never a slot into which that ever fits in your mind.

Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.

Kurosawa is my hero, and I've taught courses on his films, and I love what he does, and 'Rashomon' is, I think, his second greatest film after 'Ikiru.'

I don't think it would be possible for me to respect people like Ridley Scott or James Cameron more than I already do. They're gods of filmmaking.

I loved working with Chris Nolan. I love working with Lawrence Kasdan. Dan Gilroy. Francis Lawrence I love.

Kurosawa was truly inventive.

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.

And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men.

I am the best film director in the world.

I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.

"The Big Lebowski" is a real masterpiece, as far as I'm concerned. I suppose I'm a bit biased because I'm in it.

I think film is a director's medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I'm always inclined to follow people like David Cronenberg.

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

I actually love Scorsese comedies. He's an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made.

If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.

Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.