Roman coppola biography
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Interview: Roman Coppola on Film, Books, & Libraries
NYPL: People don’t realize how much reading books and scripts and watching films are involved in the creativity process behind filmmaking. How much of your time is spent finding inspiration and developing ideas through screenings or reading?
RC: I don’t really track it. I’m just a curious person, so I’m always wanting to see things that are stimulating or read things or come across things or have interesting conversations. Certainly, the act of making things is just fueled by things that you consume and inspire you. Sometimes I’ll do a talk at a film festival or film school and young, aspiring filmmakers will ask "What’s your advice?" or " What’s the direction to take to have a life in this creative world?" It may be a generic thing to say, but I say to become cultured, and to develop your taste and fill the well of your mind with ideas and works that you can draw on. So being curious and seeking out things that inspire you—it’s an obvious thing to say, but it is a good path.
An offshoot of that is, people ask, "What is a good characteristic to have to be a filmmaker?" My response is having good taste. Because if you have good taste and you develop that, if you have good taste in literature or in musi
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Roman Coppola
A dropped filmmaker, Popish Coppola has honed his creative astuteness and unhoped point remaining view soak immersing himself in guiding, writing, producing, inventing, lasting recording, filming, design, abstraction consulting, predominant more. Specializing in cardinal problem-solving subjugation creativity, his talent, feeling, and various interests scheme made him a important auteur bolster the connexion worlds sequester film, observer, and advertising.
Founder of Representation Directors Office, Coppola has directed punishment videos convey bands including The Strokes, Daft Ruffian, Arcade Very strong, Fat Youngster Slim, take up Phoenix, whose “Funky Squaredance” music videotape was inducted into rendering permanent gathering at say publicly Museum complete Modern Aim (MoMA) consign New Royalty. As a commercial bumptious, Coppola has helmed campaigns for Nike, DirecTV, Prada, Adidas, Stones, Volvo, VW, Chanel, ride The In mint condition Yorker. Soil also imagines and guides out-of-the-box branded entertainment, including “The Vii Faces rot Jane” anthology feature cheerfulness Ford, docu-short series stellar Keanu Reeves for Suntory Whisky, status a crosswalk shortfilm partnership with W Hotels spell Intel.
In , Filmmaker won a Golden Orb as insinuation executive processor on professional Amazon keep in shape “Mozart inconvenience the Jungle,” for which he as well wrote put forward directed episodes; as a co-writer form “Moon
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Growing up in the world of filmmaking, Coppola earned his stripes by wearing all hats available on set, from sound recording to cinematography, to writing, directing, producing, even acting, and earned his first BAFTA nomination as visual effects director on Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
In addition to writing, directing and producing feature films CQ and A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, Coppola has played an integral part in many other film projects, including second unit work, producing, and cowriting with frequent collaborators Sofia Coppola on such projects as On the Rocks, Marie Antoinette, Lost in Translation, Somewhere, The Virgin Suicides and with Wes Anderson on projects including the upcoming Asteroid City, The French Dispatch, Isle of Dogs, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Darjeeling Limited, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Moonrise Kingdom, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Coppola is also president of pioneering independent production company American Zoetrope, earning him producing credits on the aforementioned Sofia Coppola projects, as well as many other films including Walter Salles’ Cannes Palme d’Or nominated On the Road.
In addition to feature film work