Sofia Coppola Quotes

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

I always remember my dad saying, "No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it." It was not an honorable thing to do.

My movies are not about being, but becoming.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

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 wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

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.

When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.

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.

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

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.

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

I always try to make the soundtrack a good CD on its own.

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

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.

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.

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 like amateur things.

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

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.

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

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.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

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.

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

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 think anything you do that's different, that doesn't take the typical approach, invites differing opinions.

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

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.

Making films is like making stuff together as kids.