Sofia Coppola Quotes

To be different is not necessarily to be ugly; to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong. The worst possible thing is for all of us to begin to look and talk and act and think alike.

There's a large opportunity for Bon Iver to be a special thing, even from a business standpoint - just trying to do cooler things. Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

I like the fact that I like to think out-of-the-box. Thinking out-of-the-box goes along with dressing out-of-the-box and living out-of-the-box. If you want to come up with a really original design idea and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all.

I am an artist who's just tryin' to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody's opinions and wanting to follow what everybody else is doing. At the same time, I know when to be serious, but I know when to joke.

You can only make a difference by being different.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.

Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use the same sounds as people; don't use the same drums as people.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

I think we're quite unique in that we do have our own sound and approach and we don't really care what's going on elsewhere... we've never wanted to be part of another trend or movement.

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

The movies I do have to be different in some way. Nothing vanilla will do.

I think people are afraid to be original.

I've always wanted to be my own player from the start and do things a bit differently to what the others do. I want to play my own way.

As an artist, I try not to sound the same as others. Or even as myself.

Obvious is not my forte. I take a left turn right when everybody thinks I'm going to go straight.

I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.

You have to think outside the box.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

I think that it was a great advantage to go into photography not knowing much about it. Not thinking. I think one of the problems with many photographers today is that they never see for themselves, but just like everybody else.