I've been very surprised by people asking me what my teenage experience was like.
— Gia Coppola
I'm a pyro. I love exploding things.
It's great because all of my friends from elementary school are still my closest friends.
In Italy, there are a lot of Coppolas - it's like being called Jones. No one really notices.
You can't host an Italian film festival without Marcello Mastroianni. It just doesn't feel right.
It was kind of intimidating to make a feature without that much experience.
I've been going to the same person for haircuts since I was thirteen.
I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.
I have a lot of game apps I need to delete.
I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.
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.
I just love seeing other females work.
There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.
I want to learn and challenge myself and grow.
My name does help me get in the door, but it doesn't do the work for me.
My grandpa showed me how to build stamina onset behind the scenes on 'Twixt.'
I wanted to be a bartender for a bit.
My grandpa always tells me that 45-minute lunches are key because an army marches on its stomach.
My grandpa told me, 'Learn to love anxiety, because it never goes away in moviemaking.'
Friends would ask, 'Have you seen 'The Godfather?' and I'd be like, 'No.'
Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.
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 got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard.
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'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.
I get to collaborate and tell stories with moving photographs.
In high school, I didn't always relate to my friends. I was more of a spectator.
It's hard not to be impressed by my older relatives.
Women need to support women.
Working with a great actor is really educational.
I knew I wanted to be creative but didn't know how.
I went to a private all-girls school where I didn't feel I fit in.
Visually, I love the setting of suburbia.
It's hard for me to articulate myself.
I normally wear jeans and sneakers, but given an occasion, I enjoy dressing up.
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.
I love my family's films.
I'm always really impressed when a movie can function like a novel does - that's so hard to do.
The hardest thing on 'Palo Alto' was letting go because I kept working on it, trying to make it better.
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.
I like the pharmacy makeup. I always get stuck in that aisle... I've always liked looking at it.
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.
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.
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 was always a big James Franco fan.
I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one.
I never particularly liked it in New York City.
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'm so proud to be American.
It's tricky to take a book of short stories and turn it into a feature film.
