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Sofia Coppola Biography

Sofia Carmina Coppola (/ˈkoʊpələ/ KOH-pə-lə; born May 14, 1971) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and former actress.

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I'm always a sucker for a love story.

Love, Love Story, Stories, Story, Sucker

I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera.

Cameras, Conscious, Like, Self, Studied, Tried

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

Backgrounds, Different, Friendships, Moments, People, Stages

I just remember seventh grade as being really difficult, because there's nothing meaner than a girl at that age. You gang up on people, and it's traumatic. It wasn't so bad for me, but there's a woman I know who's still traumatized by junior high. At that age, everything seems like a huge deal, but of course that changes when you get older.

Being Real, Gang, Girl, Know, Like, People

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

Bittersweet, Feeling, Feelings, Glaze, Happy, Touching

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

Actors, Move, Movies, Moving, Space

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

Imagine, Like, See, Trying, Way, Work

My movies are not about being, but becoming.

Becoming, Movies

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

Approach, Different, Invites, Take, Thinking, Typical

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

Already, Difficulty, Ends, Greatest, Trying

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.

Distance, Imagination, Imagine, Use

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

Dad, Heart, My Dad, Protect

It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway.

Connection, Life, Missing, Missing Someone, Running

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.

Art, Arts, Dad, Interest, School

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

Explaining, Like, Stories, Telling, Way

I like amateur things.

Amateur, Like, Things

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, Set

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.

Dad, Exciting, Normal, People, Thinking, Took

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.

Fashion, Frivolity, Interested, Silly, Thinking

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.

Abandoned, Care, Idea, Isolated, Raised, Take Care

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