Gia Coppola Quotes

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

When you think outside of what you know, that brings out the best in you.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That's how it learns. You don't have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so.

The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else.

I love what I do and being in front of the camera. But I never want to limit myself to just one thing and just venture out into new things.

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I think I got a chance to do that in a lot of different ways.

Sometimes it's important to get out of that comfort zone and, I think, try new things, and sometimes you can express yourself better.

I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.

Every writer needs new material now and then, whether it's traveling to Japan, volunteering at a food bank, learning a new language, or trying a new food.

I want to try everything. I don't want to limit myself to anything. I want to discover as many characters as I can. I just want to explore.

One of the cool things about traveling and being a musician is that you meet so many people who have studied different things and have different careers.

Being tied down to a pre-med or engineering track would have slotted me into a very narrow group. Being a young filmmaker allowed me to explore many areas of life and many kinds of people.

Broaden yourself. You don't have to focus when you're 20. I think the broader you are, the better it is. Later you can focus on your real interests and ideas. The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top of that, then you're way ahead of everybody.

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

Doing something new and challenging. It can be anything from starting a business to playing a sport. Seeing a great concert, looking at extraordinary art, or being in nature. More than anything, it's my son's smile and love that makes me light up!