Latest Sofia Coppola Quotes from Interviews

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

  Sofia Coppola

  Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Song, Film, Scene

  Source: pitchfork.com

• When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.

  Sofia Coppola

  Song, Done, Pop Song

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Dad, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

  Sofia Coppola

  Touching, Feelings, Bittersweet

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Care, Take Care, Abandoned

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Dad, Trying, Remember

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Making films is like making stuff together as kids.

  Sofia Coppola

  Kids, Together, Stuff

  Source: www.chud.com

• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Trying, Actors, Want

  Source: www.chud.com

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

  Sofia Coppola

  Thinking, Stories, Film

  Source: www.chud.com

• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Strong, Thinking, People

  Source: www.chud.com

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

  Sofia Coppola

  Stories, Way, Explaining

  Source: www.chud.com

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

  Sofia Coppola

  Thinking, Typical, Different

  Source: www.chud.com

• I like amateur things.

  Sofia Coppola

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Crush, Teenager, Epic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Sofia Coppola

  Teenager, People, Age

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Girl, People, Being Real

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Art, Dad, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Kids, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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

  Sofia Coppola

  Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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

  Sofia Coppola

  Film, Intimate, Bigger

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Dad, Way, Scripts

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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

  Sofia Coppola

  Budgets

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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

  Sofia Coppola

  Dad, Heart, My Dad

  Source: www.indiewire.com