Gia Coppola quotes:

I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

When I graduated, I felt a little burned out on taking pictures after so many years of churning out so many for classes.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

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.

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

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?

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.

I just love seeing other females work.

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

Visually, I love the setting of suburbia.

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

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

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

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

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

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

Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.

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.

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

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

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

I have a lot of game apps I need to delete.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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