How does one inspire a smell?Coppola laughs with embarrassment

How does one inspire a smell?Coppola laughs with embarrassment. She designed a canvas bag for New York-based fashion designer Marc Jacobs, a long-term friend, Jacobs has formulated a perfume seemingly “inspired” by Coppola. In New York [where Lost In Translation was edited] at least you can walk around and see people.”Being in New York also afforded the supremely well-connected Coppola (see box, below) time to indulge some of her other interests. When I was editing The Virgin Suicides in LA, you drive in your car to this little room, spend hours there, then drive home There’s more hours spent just waiting around.

The fact that Coppola spent much of her post-Tokyo time in New York, away from the couple’s LA home, could not have helped their situation.Coppola admits that it was “rough being apart so much Also, editing is so isolating. “I was like, ‘Oh my God!’ But Spike is definitely not like that guy.”Such speculation is fuelled by the couple’s imminent divorce. But Giovanni did do some mannerisms that reminded me of Spike – I do not know where they came from!” she says amusedly. Certainly, the character of Charlotte’s husband John (Giovanni Ribisi, who also did the voiceover for Virgin Suicides), in his nervy mannerisms, distracted/obsessive air, even down to his rumpled clothes, is very similar to Jonze, who is also a photographer.John is, she concedes, “a little bit” like Jonze, “but it’s more based on this whole rock-photographer type. Coppola will only say that there are “personal aspects to it”. I liked the idea of mid-life crisis, so I tried to combine those things.”There have been suggestions in the US press that Lost In Translation – with its moribund marriages – is largely autobiographical.

It’s about [the space] in between friendship and love, but yeah, it’s a love story. So the whole movie started with just being there – and I also wanted to make something sweet and romantic, I felt in the mood for that.”Is it a love story?”Uh, yeah, I guess so. I’d seen him sing ‘God Save the Queen’ at parties and I always wanted to put that in a movie. As well as the broad idea of shooting in a culture far removed from the US or Hollywood, she had also stored away much specific detail from previous visits. The over-the-top Australian lounge singer in the Park Hyatt bar – where Coppola stays when on Milk Fed business – is an actual performer in the hotel; one scene stars a real-life friend of Coppola’s, Fumihiro Hayashi, indulging in his party piece.”He has a fashion magazine there called Dune His nickname is Charlie Brown.