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