Top 45 Gia Coppola Quotes

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

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

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 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.

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.

The teenage years are such a great subject because everything is heightened and on the surface, and it deals with universal emotions that we face even as we get older.

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

I love my family’s films.

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

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 love to play with the gadgets that come with film.

I’m so proud to be American.

I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.

I’m not so vocal. I try to get loud, but my voice will just crack or something.

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.

Being a little naive can work to your advantage.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I wanted to be a bartender for a bit.

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

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

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.

I liked to drive around, just playing music for everyone.

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.

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

I get to collaborate and tell stories with moving photographs.

I’ve only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.

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

I want to learn and challenge myself and grow.

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

Women need to support women.

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

Visually, I love the setting of suburbia.

I was always a big James Franco fan.

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

Working with a great actor is really educational.

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

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