Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Eleanor Coppola

Hong Kong is the supermarket of Asia.

It's scary to watch someone you love go into the center of himself and confront his fears, fear of failure, fear of death, fear of going insane. You have to fail a little, die a little, go insane a little, to come out the other side.

Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

When you stop looking for something, you see it right in front of you.

I was thinking about time, how on a movie set the shot is maintained in the same time no matter how many takes and hours pass. Reflectors and lights are added, footprints are smoothed away, so that there are no telltale clues as the day wears on. When the shot is finished and the plugs are pulled, time seems to leap forward in a matter of seconds. Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.