Gia Coppola

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

The teenage years are such a great subject because everything is heightened and on the surface, and it deals with universal emotions that we face even as we get older.

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.

Women need to support women.

We definitely have to support other female directors because there's not enough of us.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

I want to learn and challenge myself and grow.

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

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?

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.

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

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.