Quotes by Gia Coppola - Page 2

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.
Gia Coppola / Film Director
Makeup
Mascara
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I love Serge Lutens orange blossom perfume; my mom got it for me. It's my favorite. It just smells clean.
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Clean
Orange
Perfume
Love Mom Me
Blossom
Smells
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There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.
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Silly
Gain
Romantic Comedy
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Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness.
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Extravagance
Fantasy
Las Vegas
Vegas
Mix
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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.
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Ballet
Ballet Dancer
Dancer
Coordinated
Wished
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When I graduated, I felt a little burned out on taking pictures after so many years of churning out so many for classes.
Gia Coppola / Film Director
Burned
Churning
Classes
Graduated
So Many Years
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I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.
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Disheartening
Private School
Academically
Struggled
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I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.
Gia Coppola / Film Director
Alone People Feel
Certain Way
Connect
Emotionally
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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.
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Dad
Littles
Photography
Dad Me Better
Picking
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My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.
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Fascinating
Mundane
Shore
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Ive always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.
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Actors
Environment
Working It
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I've always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.
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Collaborating
Work Always Me
Excites
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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?
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If I Could
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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.
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Listeners
Viewers
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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.
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Aunt
Demeanor
Loud
Relate
Presence
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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.
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Explain
Fascinates
Vice
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I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.
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Watched
Genres
Teenagers
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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.
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Nervous
Prepare
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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.
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Relationship
Time Family Important
Time Family Relationship
Close
Family Time Relationship
Holidays
Spend
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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.
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Detention
Younger
Pink
Underneath
Uniform
Wore
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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.
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Broke
Teenager
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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.
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Film School
Grandpa
Day Start Every Day
Finish
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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.
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Broken
Personal Things
Possession
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In California, where you're allowed to drive at 16, you get so much freedom with that. It's a freedom to get outside of your parents' house and to do bad things.
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Bad Things
California
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I remember people - not my family - always asking, 'Oh, so are you going to make movies when you're older?' I felt pressured, and that always kind of deterred me.
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Pressured
Family Movies Me
Family Movies Always
Deterred
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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.
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Ceremony
Online
Opening
Shopping
Stores
Bowl
Flea
Market
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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.
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Deals
Teenage
Teenage Years
Older
Subject
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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.
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Inspiring
Fascinating
Life My Life Way
Twice
Life My Life Country
Drove
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I love so many directors. I love David O. Russell. I love David Fincher, I love Alexander Payne and Jane Campion and my aunt. Spike Jonze. There are just so many amazing directors.
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Aunt
Directors
Jane
Alexander
David
Russell
Spike
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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.
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Tired
Me Fun More
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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.
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Avant Garde
Judgmental
Repercussions
Sophisticated
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I remember having crushes and longings, but there were all these missed opportunities or things that seemed like such a big deal, but you really don't understand what the other person is going through.
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Big Deal
Crushes
Missed
Such A Big Deal
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I enjoy fashion photography and textiles, that whole aspect of it. As more of an art form, I like Proenza Schouler. Those guys are really cool because they seem to have an interesting approach to it all.
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Aspect
Art Form
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I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.
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Authority
Authority Figures
Figures
Pivotal
Young Adult
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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.
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Great Your Know
Feature
Feature Film
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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.
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Teen
Costumes
Dirty
Expensive
Vintage
Alto
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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.
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Eggs
Milk
Family Me Better
Family Better Me
Fridge
Mainly
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I didn't go to film school. My Grampa always says just watch a lot of movies. He didn't go to film school; he went to theatre school. It's interesting to learn about the technical side of it, but I think it's more important to learn about writing and working with actors.
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Film School
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It's amazing how everyone has their different ways of working. I like hearing about that process, reading about it. I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one. There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.
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Appreciation
Art
Smile
Reading
Silly
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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.
Gia Coppola / Film Director
Bored
Mess
Nails
Sticker
Good Always Your
Good Fun Better
Sally
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