Top 105 Quotes & Sayings by Gia Coppola
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
So many of the kids on television have really nice clothes, perfect skin and hair.
When I was younger, I had pink underneath my hair, and I got detention. I went to an all-girls school where you wore a uniform, and pink hair was not OK.
I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer.
I love so many directors. I love David O. Russell. I love David Fincher, I love Alexander Payne and Jane Campion and my aunt. Spike Jonze. There are just so many amazing directors.
I don't really wear makeup. I don't like the feeling of it. I just put mascara on, and that's kind of it.
I've been very surprised by people asking me what my teenage experience was like.
I think what's so great about making your first feature film is that you're so naive in some ways; you don't know what to expect, and you don't question things as much because you're just trying to figure it out as you go.
When I was a baby, my mom was always bringing me onto set.
I enjoy seeing how my friends - Proenza Schouler, Zac Posen, Rodarte - use clothes to create their vision and art.
I love making movies. But it's a lot of investing your heart and soul. It can be exhausting.
I love working with other people and bouncing ideas off them.
Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.
I like the camera to be still and not very shaky and have everything happen within the frame.
I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.
I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.
I liked to drive around, just playing music for everyone.
When I graduated, I felt a little burned out on taking pictures after so many years of churning out so many for classes.
If I'm not comfortable, I just look awkward.
'Virgin Suicides' was such a big movie to me as a teenage girl. It blew me away.
I think when you do things outside of what you're interested in, you meet people and get ideas to bring in to whatever it is you love doing the most.
My family and I are so close, it's important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays.
I wanted to be a bartender for a bit.
I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.
When I went to college, my mum was really sad, so she preserved my bedroom, like a weird time capsule.
Costumes say a lot about a character. When it came to 'Palo Alto,' it was important for me that the kids didn't look perfect. In most teen movies today, all of the clothes are expensive. I remember wearing a lot of dirty vintage clothes.
With my aunt, I definitely can relate to how she makes a movie because she does it with her own demeanor, which isn't this loud presence.
I really learned a lot when I worked on my grandpa's film 'Twixt' and got to be with him start to finish and sit next to him every day. That was my film school.
After college, I drove across the country twice with friends. It was one of the most fascinating experiences of my life. I find it really inspiring seeing the country that way.
I've always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.
I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.
As a teenager, I wanted to be sophisticated and avant-garde, and I was really judgmental. But when you're a teenager, you're fearless because you don't know the repercussions to anything.
I'm Italian, so I need to get someone to wax my eyebrows, but I'm not so good at keeping it up.
Chanel is a brand that is so inspiring.
I don't like shopping, so I'll look online. I like going to the flea market at the Rose Bowl every once in a while. I like the same stores, Opening Ceremony and APC.
I studied photography at Bard, but I just felt tired of it. Someone asked me to be in a video but didn't want to be in it, so they told me to make my own, and that seemed more fun to me.
I remember having crushes and longings, but there were all these missed opportunities or things that seemed like such a big deal, but you really don't understand what the other person is going through.
I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.
I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.
Being a little naive can work to your advantage.
I always knew my mom was a good actress.
Usually when I get nervous and don't know how to prepare for something, I just don't do anything at all, which is not necessarily the best idea.
It's hard for me to articulate myself.
I'm not so vocal. I try to get loud, but my voice will just crack or something.
I love to play with the gadgets that come with film.
I'm a pyro. I love exploding things.
I normally wear jeans and sneakers, but given an occasion, I enjoy dressing up.
I enjoy fashion photography and textiles, that whole aspect of it. As more of an art form, I like Proenza Schouler. Those guys are really cool because they seem to have an interesting approach to it all.
Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness.
I think there's always this idea in your head, but you have to allow the film to take its own course.
I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.
Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.
My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.
We definitely have to support other female directors because there's not enough of us.
To a certain extent, I like fashion, but sometimes I just want to be comfortable and don't really care.
I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.
I have a lot of game apps I need to delete.
I didn't go to film school. My Grampa always says just watch a lot of movies. He didn't go to film school; he went to theatre school. It's interesting to learn about the technical side of it, but I think it's more important to learn about writing and working with actors.
I don't like being in front of the camera.
I love Serge Lutens orange blossom perfume; my mom got it for me. It's my favorite. It just smells clean.
The teenage years are such a great subject because everything is heightened and on the surface, and it deals with universal emotions that we face even as we get older.
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