Sofia Coppola: What do you consider your greatest achievement?

What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Sofia Coppola said elsewhere, not written here

Making films exactly how I wanted.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2023 source ↗

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Richard Feynman Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965

There was no importance to what I was doing, but ultimately there was. The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate.

Recorded Excerpt from “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”, Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine, 1985 source ↗

Ethan Hawke Actor, director and novelist

Words like achievement make me want to puke.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 April 2015 source ↗

Martin Sheen American actor

That I was partially responsible for bringing some extraordinary human beings into the world, and they responded to me as a loving father.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2017 source ↗

Dominic West English actor

Getting all four kids to school in the morning.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 December 2018 source ↗