Quotes by Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola

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.

Dad

Editing

Ideas

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

Acting

Design

Driven

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.

Creative

Energy

Want

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.

Artistic

Creative

Important

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.

Have A Great Day

Moments

Real

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

Forget

Want

What You Want

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.

Film

Scene

Song

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.

Doe

Kids

Thinking

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

Budgets

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.

Dad

Remember

Trying

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Abandoned

Acting

Actors

Age

Art

Artistic

Becoming

Being Real

Bigger

Bittersweet

Budgets

Cameras

Care

Charismatic

Connections

Conscious

Creative

Creative Freedom

Crush

Culture

Cutting

Dad

Design

Different

Difficulty

Directors

Distance

Doe

Done

Driven

Editing

Ends

Energy

Epic

Explaining

Fashion

Father

Feelings

Film

Forever

Forget

Girl

Goes On

Hard

Have A Great Day

Heart

Help Me

Helping

Ideas

Imagination

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Quotes by Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

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.

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.

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

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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