104 Quotes by Gia Coppola

My family and I are so close, it's important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays.

My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.

Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.

I didn't go to film school. My Grampa always says just watch a lot of movies. He didn't go to film school; he went to theatre school. It's interesting to learn about the technical side of it, but I think it's more important to learn about writing and working with actors.

'Virgin Suicides' was such a big movie to me as a teenage girl. It blew me away.

I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.

I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

Costumes say a lot about a character. When it came to 'Palo Alto,' it was important for me that the kids didn't look perfect. In most teen movies today, all of the clothes are expensive. I remember wearing a lot of dirty vintage clothes.