Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.

'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

Making a great television show is hard enough. To also tackle F. Scott - whoa.

I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.

I was never interested in writing novelizations. I'm still not. Especially not for 'Star Wars.'

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.

I sold my first script when I was 21 - this kids' adventure movie that never got made. I just bought that one back, actually. I'm pretty psyched about it.

The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.

I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

The business of taking a book and transforming into a script to make this thing called a film - it's a mysterious process to me; sometimes it works.

Money is necessary -- both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.

I usually just do, like, studio jobs, re-writes and stuff.

My approach has always been to work so that I can support my family.

I've written tons of scripts, and when I wrote 'The New Girl in Town,' I read it to my parents, and they suggested I make a movie out of it. I got a few friends together, and I shot the movie in one weekend, and then my mom and I edited it.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

Before, I was writing a script to make a movie. At a certain point, I became A Writer in Film and Television. So I got TV deals to write stuff, film deals to write stuff. But it's dangerous. I got into the WGA, and I became kind of, you know, a slave! They just pay you to write a script, and it's hard to make the movies.

Filmmaking is a very serious job, and I want to concentrate on that.

I'm a writer-director originally from Rhode Island, now living in Los Angeles. I've spent the past eleven years working with a writing partner, Joni Lefkowitz, and am now making the transition into feature directing thanks to this script we wrote together and our incredible producer Jordana Mollick.

So, yes, I wrote a script called 'Ben Is Back' that I got to make with a bunch of remarkable artists and craftspeople.

In Hollywood, they create banks of scripts, whether they are used or not.

I thought that if I could play rugby on TV, I'd be able to get my mum a house. That was the driving factor.

That's your dream, to get paid and take care of your family. But you still want to win, too.