Sofia Coppola Quotes
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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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Making films is like making stuff together as kids.
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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.
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I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.
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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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My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.
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Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.
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I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My movies are not about being, but becoming.
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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.
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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.
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I never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.
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Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
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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.
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More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.
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I think I'm always drawn to projects that help me understand something about myself.
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I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.
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When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.
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It bugs me when they have people my age 28 playing teenagers.
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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.
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I like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films.