Quotes from Sofia Coppola

But the good news is, the whiskey works.

When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.

I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

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.

I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming.

When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.

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.

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

There's so many more female directors than when I started. That's encouraging.

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

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.