Quotes from Gia Coppola

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

I've been very surprised by people asking me what my teenage experience was like.

As a teenager, I wanted to be sophisticated and avant-garde, and I was really judgmental. But when you're a teenager, you're fearless because you don't know the repercussions to anything.

As a first-time director, you act a lot like a teenager. I made decisions because I was hotheaded. My skin broke out. I was trying to understand who I am.

I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.

My grandpa always tells me that 45-minute lunches are key because an army marches on its stomach.

I just love seeing other females work.

I like the camera to be still and not very shaky and have everything happen within the frame.

The hardest thing on 'Palo Alto' was letting go because I kept working on it, trying to make it better.

I love to play with the gadgets that come with film.

Friends would ask, 'Have you seen 'The Godfather?' and I'd be like, 'No.'

I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer.

I've been going to the same person for haircuts since I was thirteen.

My grandpa told me, 'Learn to love anxiety, because it never goes away in moviemaking.'

I really learned a lot when I worked on my grandpa's film 'Twixt' and got to be with him start to finish and sit next to him every day. That was my film school.

With my aunt, I definitely can relate to how she makes a movie because she does it with her own demeanor, which isn't this loud presence.

It's hard not to be impressed by my older relatives.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

When I went to college, my mum was really sad, so she preserved my bedroom, like a weird time capsule.

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.

Most movies use older actors, but I thought, if I could just put kids on camera and get them to be themselves, what could be easier?

I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.

I'm always really impressed when a movie can function like a novel does - that's so hard to do.

Chanel is a brand that is so inspiring.