Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Robert Coppola Schwartzman.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Robert Coppola Schwartzman is an American filmmaker, director, screenwriter, actor and musician. Schwartzman is best known for directing Dreamland, The Unicorn, and The Argument, acting in his cousin Sofia Coppola's projects Lick the Star and The Virgin Suicides, as well as starring in The Princess Diaries and as the lead vocalist of the rock/pop band Rooney.

I've always been real close to film world. I love film, and I will do things in film, but music is more satisfying. It feels more like me.
There are certain topics songwriters stay away from because it's hard to go there. I didn't sit down and go, 'I want to write something about my dad now.'
Dreaming big is always a good way to go about things. — © Robert Coppola Schwartzman
Dreaming big is always a good way to go about things.
That's the thing about music: It's forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant to their lives at any point. That's the whole idea about what I love about art and music.
I really like writing for specific projects. It's a whole different way of writing when you have certain guidelines and a theme you're writing to. It's very inspiring.
I kind of feel like we're all humans; we all live on this planet. I kind of always wish there was more of a partnership - a really healthy relationship between people, working together to do things and make it good and change.
I started using the Internet when I was 12 years old. I would go into chat rooms and flirt. It was the beginning of the Internet for young people.
I'm definitely still putting effort into my lyrics, for them to be emotional and tell a story.
I definitely care about what's happening in our country. I grew up in a family that was very liberal and had very strong opinions about liberal ideas. I was around those thoughts and had conversations about those things and did the best I could to absorb what was happening around me and have my own opinion about it.
I started Rooney in high school. These were guys I went to high school with and guys I knew from L.A.
I just like traditional songs that come from an honest place, and they make you feel something and tell a story and they flow right.
For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.
You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always try to make sure that there's a value - that people appreciate music and realize that there's a value to it.
When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional connection, especially when you're young... because you don't know what's out there.
Rooney was like marrying a high school sweetheart. And then you're like, 'I think we need some time to see other people,' and those other people are new musicians. Starsystem is like a new marriage with new musicians.
I've always loved Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and I watched the Petty documentary 'Running Down A Dream'. I was directly influenced, it made me want to go write.
I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.
I love all the movies by director John Hughes. I also love John Landis's movies.
I never really considered myself an actor because I never pursued it. — © Robert Coppola Schwartzman
I never really considered myself an actor because I never pursued it.
It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians.
I've always wanted to do a project with space imagery because I've always loved these amazing sci-fi electro book covers. I've always loved science fiction. I feel like space imagery has no boundaries.
I think, having done 'The Princess Diaries,' it was a fun experience, and it's cool to have made fans that are now into all this music. That movie is still so relevant to our culture. It's always on. It's kind of a rare, nostalgic thing. I get tweets all the time about it.
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