Sofia Coppola Quotes
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It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.
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I always like to keep the budget as small as possible just to have the most freedom.
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Forget the audience, make what you want to see
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Generally I just pick music that I like. That's the part I really enjoy: When I get permission for the songs I want and put them into the scenes. It's always hard when you're doing a low-budget film, so it's great when you can get all the music you want to get.
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I like amateur things.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.
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I'm always a sucker for a love story.
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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.
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I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.
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The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever
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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.
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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.
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I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.
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I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.
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I think anything you do that's different, that doesn't take the typical approach, invites differing opinions.
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I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.