Sofia Coppola Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Thinking, Trying, Directors

  Interview with Richard Prince, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 14, 2013.

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• 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

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• 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

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• I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

  Sofia Coppola

  Nerd, Stories, Love Story

  "From the iW Vaults | Sofia Coppola Talks 'Lost in Translation,' Her Love Story That’s Not 'Nerdy'". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. July 6, 2011.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Sofia Coppola

  Budgets

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Fashion, Silly, Thinking

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

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• 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

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• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Creative, Energy, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just try to do what I'm interested in and hope that some people will connect.

  Sofia Coppola

  People, Trying

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Creative, Important, Artistic

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• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Father, Charismatic, Hard

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• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Dad, Editing, Ideas

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

  Sofia Coppola

  Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

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• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Self, Cameras, Conscious

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• My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.

  Sofia Coppola

  Dad, Cutting, My Dad

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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

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• I like amateur things.

  Sofia Coppola

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

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• More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.

  Sofia Coppola

  Moving, Space, Actors

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• I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

  Sofia Coppola

  People, Different, Moments

  "I don't like being told what to do", www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2003.

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• Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

  Sofia Coppola

  Design, Acting, Driven

  Interview with Ella Taylor, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2003.

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