Article: SOFIA COPPOLA.(Interview)

The terror of suburban adolescence has been explored and exploited in millions of films, but Sofia Coppola, in her debut movie, The Virgin Suicides, really gets the subject. Here she speaks with fellow director Lisa Krueger.

LISA KRUEGER: When you read The Virgin Suicides [1993] by Jeffrey Eugenides, did you immediately say "I want to make a movie of this?"

SOFIA COPPOLA: I guess when anyone reads a book, you picture it. But that one was really vivid and stayed with me after I read it. I went back to it a couple of years later and started looking at it again. Then I heard they were doing a movie of it. I wasn't planning on directing a movie; I spent my ...

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