Sofia Coppola

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

— Sofia Coppola

That's the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

— Sofia Coppola

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my…

— Sofia Coppola

For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go…

— Sofia Coppola

My father is so in love with making movies, and he'sso charismatic about it, that it's hard to be around him withoutwanting…

— Sofia Coppola

It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life…

— Sofia Coppola

I feel like the internet has encouraged people to look into things and try to find issuesthat because people have a lot…

— Sofia Coppola

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…

— Sofia Coppola

I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and…

— Sofia Coppola

There's so many more female directors than when I started. That's encouraging.

— Sofia Coppola

Having a kid, it makes you slow down; when you're walking with a toddler to pick up a leaf it can take…

— Sofia Coppola

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

— Sofia Coppola

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

— Sofia Coppola

I work with my brother a lot, and we don't fight - probably because it's not two girls. And he's six years…

— Sofia Coppola

I like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films.

— Sofia Coppola

Generally I just pick music that I like. That's the part I really enjoy: When I get permission for the songs I…

— Sofia Coppola

When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most…

— Sofia Coppola

The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever

— Sofia Coppola

I really wanted to emphasize the idea of the women being isolated and abandoned . . . and they weren't raised to take care…

— Sofia Coppola

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

— Sofia Coppola

We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting.…

— Sofia Coppola

My parents were always encouraging of us being creative however we wanted to be. People say, "You didn't get pressured into having…

— Sofia Coppola

I like amateur things.

— Sofia Coppola

Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow,…

— Sofia Coppola

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

— Sofia Coppola