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 never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.
It bugs me when they have people my age [28] playing teenagers.
I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.
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.
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.
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.
My movies are not about being, but becoming.
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.
My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.
Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.
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.
Forget the audience, make what you want to see
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.