Gia Coppola Quotes

I knew I wanted to be creative but didn't know how.

When I was younger, I had pink underneath my hair, and I got detention. I went to an all-girls school where you wore a uniform, and pink hair was not OK.

When I was a baby, my mom was always bringing me onto set.

I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one.

Anyone can create and put stuff out there, so then as viewers and listeners, we have access to a lot of different unique view points.

So many of the kids on television have really nice clothes, perfect skin and hair.

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.

I never particularly liked it in New York City.

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

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

If I were to save one possession in a fire, it would have to be my dad's camera, an old, broken Nikon. I always keep it with me - his personal things mean a lot.

It's great because all of my friends from elementary school are still my closest friends.

I think when you do things outside of what you're interested in, you meet people and get ideas to bring in to whatever it is you love doing the most.

It was kind of intimidating to make a feature without that much experience.

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.

I went to a private all-girls school where I didn't feel I fit in.

You can't host an Italian film festival without Marcello Mastroianni. It just doesn't feel right.

In Italy, there are a lot of Coppolas - it's like being called Jones. No one really notices.

I think there's always this idea in your head, but you have to allow the film to take its own course.

I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.

We definitely have to support other female directors because there's not enough of us.

I enjoy seeing how my friends - Proenza Schouler, Zac Posen, Rodarte - use clothes to create their vision and art.

I don't like being in front of the camera.

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

I normally wear jeans and sneakers, but given an occasion, I enjoy dressing up.

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

I love Serge Lutens orange blossom perfume; my mom got it for me. It's my favorite. It just smells clean.

I love making movies. But it's a lot of investing your heart and soul. It can be exhausting.

My only vice is 'Keeping up With The Kardashians.' I can't really explain what it is that fascinates me so much, but it just sucks me in.

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

I want to learn and challenge myself and grow.

I love working with other people and bouncing ideas off them.

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.

Working with a great actor is really educational.

I studied photography at Bard, but I just felt tired of it. Someone asked me to be in a video but didn't want to be in it, so they told me to make my own, and that seemed more fun to me.

In high school, I didn't always relate to my friends. I was more of a spectator.

I think what's so great about making your first feature film is that you're so naive in some ways; you don't know what to expect, and you don't question things as much because you're just trying to figure it out as you go.

Visually, I love the setting of suburbia.

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

Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness.

My name does help me get in the door, but it doesn't do the work for me.

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

My grandpa showed me how to build stamina onset behind the scenes on 'Twixt.'

My family get so mad at me when they come over. All I'll have in is milk and eggs. I mainly keep film in my fridge - it's better for it; it stops it from going old. I'm bad at eating healthy; I usually just run across the street and get cheeseburgers.

To a certain extent, I like fashion, but sometimes I just want to be comfortable and don't really care.

Usually when I get nervous and don't know how to prepare for something, I just don't do anything at all, which is not necessarily the best idea.

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

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

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

I don't really wear makeup. I don't like the feeling of it. I just put mascara on, and that's kind of it.

After college, I drove across the country twice with friends. It was one of the most fascinating experiences of my life. I find it really inspiring seeing the country that way.

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

Once I found these sticker things for your nails - Sally Hansen - those were really fun to do. They're really fun to do when you're bored, and it's better than painting your nails because you don't mess up. It looks really good, very professional. I tried a zebra one that was really pretty, but I always get a little bored of it.

I've always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.

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

I like the pharmacy makeup. I always get stuck in that aisle ... I've always liked looking at it.

I love my family's films.

I get to collaborate and tell stories with moving photographs.

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

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.

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

I'm Italian, so I need to get someone to wax my eyebrows, but I'm not so good at keeping it up.

I don't like shopping, so I'll look online. I like going to the flea market at the Rose Bowl every once in a while. I like the same stores, Opening Ceremony and APC.

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?

Chanel is a brand that is so inspiring.

I just love seeing other females work.

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

It's tricky to take a book of short stories and turn it into a feature film.

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

I was always a big James Franco fan.