Sofia Coppola Quotes

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• My movies are not about being, but becoming.

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  Becoming

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

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  Stories, Way, Explaining

  Source: www.chud.com

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• 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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  Life, Running, Missing Someone

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• Forget the audience, make what you want to see

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  Want, Forget, What You Want

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

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  Forever, Connections, Might

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Memories, Thinking, Goes On

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

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  People, Want, Loud

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• 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.

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  Strong, Thinking, People

  Source: www.chud.com

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

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  Touching, Feelings, Bittersweet

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

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  Trying, Ends, Difficulty

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

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  Trying, Way, Imagine

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• 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.

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  Care, Take Care, Abandoned

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

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  Thinking, Helping, Help Me

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• I'm always a sucker for a love story.

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  Stories, Love Story, Sucker

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Thinking, Typical, Different

  Source: www.chud.com

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• I never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.

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  Creative, Creative Freedom, Situation

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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.

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  Distance, Imagination, Use

  "INTERVIEW: Like Father, Like Daughter? Sofia Coppola’s Coming Out with 'Virgin Suicides'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. April 24, 2000.

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• 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.

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  Trying, Actors, Want

  Source: www.chud.com

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• Making films is like making stuff together as kids.

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  Kids, Together, Stuff

  Source: www.chud.com

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

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  Dad, Heart, My Dad

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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.

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  Dad, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

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  Real, Have A Great Day, Moments

  "Decade: Sofia Coppola on 'Lost in Translation'" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. December 14, 2009.

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• 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.

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  Crush, Teenager, Epic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

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  Dad, Trying, Remember

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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