Francis Ford Coppola Art Quotations

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

Art depends on luck and talent.

The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camera and for once the so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever - and it will really become an art form.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.