Sofia Coppola Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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 like amateur things.
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The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever
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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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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 just try to do what I'm interested in and hope that some people will connect.
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I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.
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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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I'm always a sucker for a love story.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Making films is like making stuff together as kids.
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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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I think anything you do that's different, that doesn't take the typical approach, invites differing opinions.