But Who Said Art Has To Cost

I Was Terrible At Maths, But I Could Grasp Science, And I Used To Love To Read About The Lives Of The Scientists. I Wanted To Be A Scientist Or An Inventor.

A Director Is The Ringmaster Of A Circus That's Inventing Itself.

I Have Always Credited The Writer Of The Original Material Above The Title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I Felt That I Didn't Have The Right To Francis Coppola's Anything Unless I Had Written The Story And The Screenplay.

Lots Of People Have Criticized My Movies, But Nobody Has Ever Identified The Real Problem: I'm A Sloppy Filmmaker.

I Think It's Better To Be Overly Ambitious And Fail Than To Be Underambitious And Succeed In A Mundane Way. I Have Been Very Fortunate. I Failed Upward In My Life!