Roman Ford Coppola (born April 22, 1965) is an American film director and music video director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for 2012's Moonrise Kingdom. Read full biography of Roman Coppola →
I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.
It's not just people in Hollywood: I'm sure everyone in the world thinks, 'What would be it like if I won an Oscar?'
Movies are magical. Sometimes it just works, it catalyzes, and everything falls into place, and no one knows exactly how or why.
Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.
To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.
When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my... →
A movie that I'm involved with and have a lot of love for, which is 'On The Road,' does use a lot of handheld. It can be done... →
I love 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' and I love 'Bugsy Malone.' I haven't seen 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' in a long time, but... →
I really value distinctive movies, movies that feel that they came from a person that was really something that they had conceived and they made and... →
I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen and... →
In my films that I've directed, and my work in commercials and videos, I've rarely used handheld. It's just not something I'm drawn... →
On 'Darjeeling,' I was on set every day and I acted as the second unit director and a producer on that film. I was there throughout the whole... →
Roman Ford Coppola (born April 22, 1965) is an American film director and music video director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for 2012's Moonrise Kingdom.