NEW YORK (AP) — When Sofia Coppola was 20 years old and figuring out who she wanted to be in the world, Angelica Huston offered some advice: “Not everyone’s going to love you. Don’t waste your time on the people who don’t,” Coppola recalled Wednesday night in New York at the Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit, where she was being honored for her films.
Coppola was surrounded by family, friends and collaborators like Bill Murray, Josh Hartnett and Elle Fanning for the Chanel-presented event, which helps raise funds for the museum’s film collection and preservation efforts.
“She’s not just the daughter of a great filmmaker,” Murray said. “She’s a great filmmaker.”
But it’s a distinction that was hard earned. Just over 27 years after her father Francis Ford Coppola encouraged her to make he

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