Top 62 Quotes & Sayings by Sofia Coppola
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
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.
It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.
That's the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.
I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.
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.
With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just don't have that luxury. I have a babysitter for three hours a day, which is how long I have to write.
Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get another idea.
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 got exposed to so many different cultures and people.
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.
I work with my brother a lot, and we don't fight - probably because it's not two girls. And he's six years older. But I have daughters who are three years apart, and they fight all the time.
I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.
My mom is very calm and quiet, so I think I got that from her. Because my dad is passionate and loud... It was always interesting, and I really enjoyed that my parents always included us in their lives.
I'm always a sucker for a love story.
I had a teacher when I was in college, and he was the first person who liked my photos and said, 'The way you look at girls is your own way of seeing.' He was the first person who really gave me the confidence to try something.
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.
There's so many more female directors than when I started. That's encouraging.
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.
Of course I am proud of my dad and where I come from, but I do have my own way of working my own style.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.
I like amateur things.
The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever
I always try to make the soundtrack a good CD on its own.
I just try to do what I'm interested in and hope that some people will connect.
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 never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.
I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.
My movies are not about being, but becoming.
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 like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.
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.
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're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.
My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.
I think anything you do that's different, that doesn't take the typical approach, invites differing opinions.
You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.
Making films is like making stuff together as kids.
More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.
I always like to keep the budget as small as possible just to have the most freedom.
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.
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.
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 like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films.
Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.
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.
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 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.
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.
I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.
Forget the audience, make what you want to see
I think I'm always drawn to projects that help me understand something about myself.
It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway.
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