Sofia Coppola
My mom is very calm and quiet, so I think I got that from her. Because my dad is passionate and loud... It was always interesting, and I really enjoyed that my parents always included us in their lives.Collection: Dad
I had a teacher when I was in college, and he was the first person who liked my photos and said, 'The way you look at girls is your own way of seeing.' He was the first person who really gave me the confidence to try something.Collection: Teacher
Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.Collection: Design
It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.
I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.
That's the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.
I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.
For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.
There's so many more female directors than when I started. That's encouraging.
I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.
Of course I am proud of my dad and where I come from, but I do have my own way of working my own style.
I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera.
I'm always a sucker for a love story.
Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get another idea.
I work with my brother a lot, and we don't fight - probably because it's not two girls. And he's six years older. But I have daughters who are three years apart, and they fight all the time.
Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.
A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.
We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere.
I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.
With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just don't have that luxury. I have a babysitter for three hours a day, which is how long I have to write.
I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.Collection: Stories
My movies are not about being, but becoming.Collection: Becoming
It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway.Collection: Life
Forget the audience, make what you want to seeCollection: Want
The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us foreverCollection: Forever
When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.Collection: Inspirational
It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.Collection: Memories
You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.Collection: People
I think being mediocre and in the middle would be the worst. It's more interesting to get strong reactions, and to have the mixture of people who get it and the people who don't get it. And to invite a dialogue.Collection: Strong
I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.Collection: Touching
Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.Collection: Trying
I really wanted to emphasize the idea of the women being isolated and abandoned . . . and they weren't raised to take care of themselves, so they had to learn to survive.Collection: Care
I think I'm always drawn to projects that help me understand something about myself.Collection: Thinking
I never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.Collection: Creative
I think anything you do that's different, that doesn't take the typical approach, invites differing opinions.Collection: Thinking
It’s always more intriguing to imagine what’s happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.Collection: Distance
I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming.Collection: Trying
Making films is like making stuff together as kids.Collection: Kids
I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.Collection: Dad
My parents were always encouraging of us being creative however we wanted to be. People say, "You didn't get pressured into having to be a director?" But it's hard to be around my dad and not be curious about filmmaking, because he thinks it's the ultimate medium.Collection: Dad
There's something about being a teenager that's so sincere. Everything is more epic, like your first crush. I feel that it's not always portrayed very accurately.Collection: Crush
I always remember my dad saying, "No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it." It was not an honorable thing to do.Collection: Dad
I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.Collection: Writing
I feel like the internet has encouraged people to look into things and try to find issuesthat because people have a lot of opinions. I think it's really important to encourage artistic freedom. I think if you inhibit that, that could be dangerous.Collection: Thinking
I've always written my own scripts, I really like doing everything from the beginning and taking it all the way through, I've probably learned that from my dad.Collection: Dad
I just remember seventh grade as being really difficult, because there's nothing meaner than a girl at that age. You gang up on people, and it's traumatic. It wasn't so bad for me, but there's a woman I know who's still traumatized by junior high. At that age, everything seems like a huge deal, but of course that changes when you get older.Collection: Girl
When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.Collection: Thinking
I always like to keep the budget as small as possible just to have the most freedom.Collection: Budgets
You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.Collection: Fashion
I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I went to art school and tried a bunch of different things, but I knew I wanted to do something in the visual arts. And I'd always been around my dad's film sets, so the interest was there. But I didn't have the guts to say, "I want to be a director," especially coming from that family.Collection: Art