Gia Coppola
Gia Coppola
Gian-Carla "Gia" Coppolais an American film director, screenwriter, and actress. She is a granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola, the daughter of Gian-Carlo Coppola and the niece of Sofia Coppola...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth1 January 1987
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
experience people surprised
I've been very surprised by people asking me what my teenage experience was like.
mix people
Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness.
bring ideas interested love meet outside people whatever
I think when you do things outside of what you're interested in, you meet people and get ideas to bring in to whatever it is you love doing the most.
alone certain connect hopefully job people
I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.
deterred family felt movies people
I remember people - not my family - always asking, 'Oh, so are you going to make movies when you're older?' I felt pressured, and that always kind of deterred me.
love people
I love working with other people and bouncing ideas off them.
I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.
deals great subject teenage universal
The teenage years are such a great subject because everything is heightened and on the surface, and it deals with universal emotions that we face even as we get older.
kids movies
Most movies use older actors, but I thought, if I could just put kids on camera and get them to be themselves, what could be easier?
asked felt seemed studied
I studied photography at Bard, but I just felt tired of it. Someone asked me to be in a video but didn't want to be in it, so they told me to make my own, and that seemed more fun to me.
mom onto
When I was a baby, my mom was always bringing me onto set.
best
Usually when I get nervous and don't know how to prepare for something, I just don't do anything at all, which is not necessarily the best idea.
approach art aspect cool enjoy fashion guys seem
I enjoy fashion photography and textiles, that whole aspect of it. As more of an art form, I like Proenza Schouler. Those guys are really cool because they seem to have an interesting approach to it all.
classes ended taking year
I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard.