Sofia Coppola Quotes

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'm always a sucker for a love story.

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

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.

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

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

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Making films is like making stuff together as kids.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

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

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

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

I like amateur things.

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

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

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

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.

The more you know who you are and what you want, the less let things upset you