Sofia Coppola famous quotes

07-14-2025

Itâ€™s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people donâ€™t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway.
-- Sofia Coppola

#Running #Mean #People
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.
-- Sofia Coppola

#Dad #Ideas #Editing
I'm always a sucker for a love story.
-- Sofia Coppola

#Stories #Love Story #Sucker
The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever
-- Sofia Coppola

#Forever #Might #Lasts
More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.
-- Sofia Coppola

#Moving #Space #Actors
I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.
-- Sofia Coppola

#Thinking #Trying #Want
It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.
-- Sofia Coppola

#Trying #Ends #Difficulty
I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.
-- Sofia Coppola

#People #Culture #Different
For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.
-- Sofia Coppola

#Real #Have A Great Day #Moments
I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.
-- Sofia Coppola

#People #Different #Moments
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

#Design #Acting #Driven
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.
-- Sofia Coppola

#Self #Cameras #Conscious
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.
-- Sofia Coppola

#Dad #Thinking #People
You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.
-- Sofia Coppola

#People #Want #What You Want
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.
-- Sofia Coppola

#Creative #Important #Artistic
I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.
-- Sofia Coppola

#Stories #Love Story #Wanted
Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.
-- Sofia Coppola

#Trying #Way #Imagine
My movies are not about being, but becoming.
-- Sofia Coppola

#Becoming
I think I'm always drawn to projects that help me understand something about myself.
-- Sofia Coppola

#Thinking #Helping #Help Me
Itâ€™s always more intriguing to imagine whatâ€™s happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.
-- Sofia Coppola

#Distance #Imagination #Use
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.
-- Sofia Coppola

#Fashion #Silly #Thinking

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