The Path to Paradise Quotes

“. . . When you start fooling around with metaphor,” Coppola said, “the metaphor fools around with you.”
― Sam Wasson, The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

“It was never a question of honesty. Eleanor knew she had to be honest. She would remind him, as she had before, that panic was his custom. He would insist that this time it’s different; she would say he always said that. He would insist, no, this time it really is.”
― Sam Wasson, The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

“Behind him, they whispered. They always whispered, Coppola thought. They had whispered on the first Godfather: This guy is full of shit. Fire this guy. He doesn’t know what he’s doing.”
― Sam Wasson, The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

“He wasn’t like Brando, who sometimes would just open his mouth, and out would come genius, expertise on anything, a perfect soliloquy . . .”
― Sam Wasson, The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

“But artistic perfection has never been integral to Coppola’s colossal experiment. Learning and growing have been. Living is. Dying is. The adventure is.”
― Sam Wasson, The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

“My technique for making film is to turn the filmmaking experience, as close as I can, into the experience of [whatever] fiction we’re dealing with.”
― Sam Wasson, The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story