Sofia Coppola Quotations

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

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.

Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

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.

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

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.

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

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.

I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.

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.

We put a lot of time and effort into his hair, ... And Josh came up with that great walk. I'm such a fan of his. I think he's great.

Tokyo is so hectic, but inside the hotel it's very silent. And the design of it is interesting. It's weird to have this New York bar... the jazz singer... the French restaurant, all in Tokyo. It's this weird combination of different cultures.

It's been great to have positive reviews, especially because for so long I put myself completely into it. You're so vulnerable putting yourself up to be reviewed, so it's exciting that they see something in it that I intended.

I just try to do what I'm interested in and hope that some people will connect.

Having a kid, it makes you slow down; when you're walking with a toddler to pick up a leaf it can take a half hour. You've never spent that time looking at a leaf before, having that kind of interaction. So I think it does make you change the way you look things.

I always like to keep the budget as small as possible just to have the most freedom.

I like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films.

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.

I like amateur things.

Ever since I was little, I've felt very comfortable on a set. The time is stressful - being creative under time constraints. But there is an excitement and energy that you only have a certain amount of time to get what you want.

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.

More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

It bugs me when they have people my age [28] playing teenagers.

I think I'm always drawn to projects that help me understand something about myself.

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.

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.

I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.

My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.

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.

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.

The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever

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.

My movies are not about being, but becoming.

You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.

I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.

My father is so in love with making movies, and he'sso charismatic about it, that it's hard to be around him withoutwanting to make movies.

I never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.

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.

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.

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.