When he did visit, he was kind of nervous. Although he wasn’t there on set very much, he really mentored me. He always said the most important thing about a movie is the acting and the writing. We have a family film company, American Zoetrope, so I really had my dad’s support. Because I was still in my 20s, the idea of school wasn’t far away. But I wanted to treat them with respect, to look properly at that deep, emotional time. There aren’t a lot of quality art films made for young audiences. Often, movies about teenagers are dumbed down with cheap photography. This gave me a connection to The Virgin Suicides, which is also about loss. Although I didn’t realise it at the time, it was personal: when I was 15, my eldest brother Gio died suddenly in a boating accident. I made The Virgin Suicides, my first feature-length film, a little later. Photograph: Zoetrope/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock Easier than the dinner scene … Coppola directing Danny De Vito in The Virgin Suicides.
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