Sofia Coppola Quotes

Making films is like making stuff together as kids.

Sofia Coppola

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• Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dad

• No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Think
  • Appreciation
  • Him

• I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Night

• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Children

• I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Late

• It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Strong
  • Spirit
  • Rebellious

• Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Today
  • Story
  • Information

• The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Problem
  • Serious
  • Consequences

• Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Hand
  • Need
  • Dignity

• I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • College
  • Football
  • Learn

• 95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang

• A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • May
  • Parents
  • Dog

• They need to read the Scriptures; where it says in Matthew, chapter 4, verse 17, it says: 'Shut the fuck up.' That's the King James version, by the way.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • King

• I always wear high heels - I simply feel naked without them.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • High

• Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Character
  • Shoes
  • Fairytale

• Go to where the ducks are. Forget the duck calls. If you go where the ducks are coming, you're going to shoot more ducks.

  

  Jase Robertson

• Rather than thinking of ourselves as a computer, and trying to give you computer-like functionality, it's better to start from the understanding that this is a pair of glasses, and say, 'How smart can we make these glasses for you?'

  

  Astro Teller
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.

  

  Chris Burke
  • Friends
  • Singing
  • Rain

• We are God's children. We are Christians first, and then what we do flows from that.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • God
  • Children

• We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• Making films is like making stuff together as kids.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Film