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'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.
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.
My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.
I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.
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.
We put a lot of time and effort into his hair, ... And Josh came up with that great walk. I'm such a fan of his. I think he's great.
Tokyo is so hectic, but inside the hotel it's very silent. And the design of it is interesting. It's weird to have this New York bar... the jazz singer... the French restaurant, all in Tokyo. It's this weird combination of different cultures.
It's been great to have positive reviews, especially because for so long I put myself completely into it. You're so vulnerable putting yourself up to be reviewed, so it's exciting that they see something in it that I intended.
I just try to do what I'm interested in and hope that some people will connect.
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 like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films.
I like amateur things.
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.