68 Quotes by Sofia Coppola

I think I'm always drawn to projects that help me understand something about myself.

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.

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.

I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.

My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.

There's something about being a teenager that's so sincere. Everything is more epic, like your first crush. I feel that it's not always portrayed very accurately.

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.

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

I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I went to art school and tried a bunch of different things, but I knew I wanted to do something in the visual arts. And I'd always been around my dad's film sets, so the interest was there. But I didn't have the guts to say, "I want to be a director," especially coming from that family.