Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola
Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American screenwriter, director, producer and actress. In 2003, she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the comedy-drama Lost in Translation, and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. In 2010, with the drama Somewhere, she became the first American womanto win the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. Her father is director, producer and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth14 May 1971
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever
Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.
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.
I'm always a sucker for a love story.
My movies are not about being, but becoming.
You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.
I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.
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.
It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.
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.
I never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.
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.
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.