Gia Coppola Quotes

My biggest inspiration is to work with interesting filmmakers and learn from them in any way that I can.

I really just want to work with good directors and learn as much as I possibly can.

'Beyond the Lights' was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I'm excited to share that with young filmmakers because I know how lost I was coming out of film school with that question of 'What's next?'

I depend on good editors and a good director.

I always wanted to be a feature filmmaker and tried to treat that experience as some sort of elite film school where I could learn the craft, and got paid to learn the craft.

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

I learned a lot from Ana Ortiz, who plays my sister in 'Sleeping with the Fishes'.

I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

I'm happiest when I'm discussing a script and working with interesting people.

I'm very grateful to have been able to work with so many talented filmmakers and actors during my career. I've learned so much from them. It's been my college, in a way.

Being on the 'Alex Cross' set, and watching and learning about and paying attention to everything that was going on there, I realized, 'Here is a moment for me to learn.'

When I made my first film, it was just an adventure. But after my first movie, I guess I got more of a feeling of what was happening around me.

I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time.

Working with directors like Gurinder Chadha was a learning experience for me.

I wanted to be a cartoonist, and then I wanted to go into film - not as an actor, but as a writer-director - and then I found myself during film school at the University of Southern California listening to the Clarence Thomas hearings in class on my Walkman, and I realized L.A. was not really for me.

Ultimately what I try to do is work on stories I love with people I admire, and sometimes they get made and sometimes they don't.

You've got these young kids out here that have to learn, but you learn from the guys above you. I learned from the Kevin Faulks.

I feel I have learnt a lot on the sets of 'Beyond The Clouds,' and it will be a life-long learning for me.

No one will train me but my father.

I mean I met James Wan at film school. That's where we met. I didn't go to film school to find someone else to work with. I was thinking I would go and learn to direct and go and be a director like everyone else at school.

Whenever I can make it work out, and schedule permitting, I like to help young filmmakers.

My brother advises me on what kind of films to do, which directors to work with and which scripts have potential.

My mother has been in films for 50 years. She is very insightful. She has been invaluable to me in choosing films and other routine things.

I can't wait for the rest of my career to meet these young writers and filmmakers so that I can produce and push a lot of their stories out there.