Somewhere director Sofia Coppola gives emphasis to the script and the acting, like his father, the legendary Francis Ford Coppola. Sofia says that while she learned to find her own approach to film through her father, she did learn quite a few tricks from The Godfather director.

"Spending time on his sets is how I learned to approach things on my own way. But he always emphasized the most important thing was the script and the acting, so I think that's the most important thing that stays in my mind," Coppola told Jenny Karakaya of Latino Review.

"Also, to not use video assists and sit right next to the camera. His teacher told him that and it's something I do. I think now there are a lot of people in the other room behind the monitor and I think the actors can really appreciate or connect with you if you're right there."

Sofia's latest film Somewhere won the Golden Lion Prize, the highest award at the Venice Film Festival. Coppola was the first American woman to win the prize.

But the daughter of Francis Ford Coppola is not a stranger to making history. Back in 2003, Sofia became the third woman and the first American woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Directing, for her work in Lost in Translation, paving the way for the Oscar win of Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurtlocker in 2009.

Somewhere chronicles the life of famous Hollywood actor Johnny Marco at The Chateau Marmont. Marco, played by Stephen Dorff, is living the actor's life involving drugs, alcohol and sex until her daughter, played by Elle Fanning, arrives to stay with him. It opens today December 22nd in the United States.