Sofia Coppola Quotes
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I just try to do what I'm interested in and hope that some people will connect.
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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.
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I think I'm always drawn to projects that help me understand something about myself.
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It bugs me when they have people my age [28] playing teenagers.
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Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.
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I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.
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I like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films.
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Making films is like making stuff together as kids.
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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.
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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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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.
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I never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.
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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.
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I always try to make the soundtrack a good CD on its own.
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I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.
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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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I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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My movies are not about being, but becoming.
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I'm always a sucker for a love story.
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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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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.
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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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I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.
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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.
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