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Natalie Portman "channels Sofia Coppola" when directing.
The 'Black Swan' actress has taken the helm on 'A Tale of Love and Darkness' and admits she finds it quite stressful, so tries to conduct herself in the same way as the 'Virgin Suicides' director, who she has previously worked with on Miss Dior campaigns.
She said: "Sofia is so talented and so calm and she really has a vision.
"I thought about her a lot when I was directing because she is just unflappable, so cool in any situation.
"So whenever I would feel myself getting stressed, I'd try and channel Sofia."
Natalie is relishing life behind the camera because it gives her so much more control.
She said: "It's a lot of responsibility, but a wonderful opportunity to own your work at the end.
"When you make a film as an actor, whether it turns out good or bad, I always have to either credit or blame the director. It's a director's medium."
The 33-year-old beauty believes there needs to be more opportunities for female directors in film.
She told Red magazine: "I love male stories, they help me see the world in different ways.
"But we need more opportunities for women. I don't think it's that fewer women want to direct, because in film school there are equal numbers of men and women.
"I think there are institutional biases against women that don't allow them to have as many opportunities, or as comfortable with them being in leadership roles."

Monica Bellucci thought she was going to be the new M in 'Spectre'.
The 50-year-old actress was surprised when she was asked to be in the forthcoming James Bond movie because of her age but was delighted to learn she will be a love interest for Daniel Craig's suave spy character.
She said: "I think of myself as a Bond woman. I did wonder why they asked me to be in the film. Did they want me to take over from Judi Dench [as Bond's boss M]?
"But then director Sam Mendes explained James Bond was going to have a story with a mature woman."
Monica - who is the oldest actress to ever be cast as a Bond girl - hopes her casting will prove that older women are just as sexy as younger starlets.
She said: "I think it is important to show a woman at 50 can be just as attractive and interesting as a woman at 30. Women should not be judged by one standard of beauty.
"Older women deserve as much respect and attention for being just as interesting and sensual as younger women, maybe even more so. True sexiness is in the mind, not the age of the body."
And the brunette beauty is delighted to be entering film history with a role in the iconic franchise.
She told Britain's HELLO! magazine: "I feel like I'm entering into a chapter of film history that is part of our collective imagination. It makes me really happy.
"Especially when I think of some of the women in the more recent Bond movies - Olga Kurylenko, Eva Green, Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike. These women all combined beauty and talent."

Charlotte Le Bon thinks Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a "cyborg".
The 28-year-old Franco-Canadian actress stars alongside the Hollywood star in the much-anticipated biographical movie 'The Walk', which tells the story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit, who walked between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on August 7, 1974.
Asked how she enjoyed working with the 34-year-old actor, Charlotte exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "I think he's a cyborg. I don't think he's real.
"He is the most professional actor that I've ever worked with. He's never, never complaining and he worked every day for, like, two months.
"He was working every day, an amazing amount of hours, doing very difficult stuff. He's never complaining, he was on a very strict diet as well to be fit. You almost have to have a chiseled body when you're a wire walker, and he could walk on a wire by the end of shooting quite easily."
And Charlotte - who also starred alongside Dame Helen Mirren in 'The Hundred-Foot Journey' - said she was equally impressed by Gordon-Levitt away from the cameras.
She shared: "He's very generous. He's just brilliant ... and cool!"
'The Walk' is set for release later this year.
Meanwhile, 'The Hundred-Foot Journey' is available on Blu-ray and DVD now, courtesy of Entertainment One.

Terence Stamp says Sir Michael Caine has failed to follow his own career advice.
The 76-year-old actor, who's started in more than 60 films during his career - including 'Billy Budd', 'Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace' and the 'Superman' franchise - once shared a flat with the Oscar-winning star, but has revealed they haven't spoken in 40 years.
London-born Stamp recalled: "We just went different ways. I can understand it: in many ways he was much more mature than me."
Stamp said that although Sir Michael, 81, tried to instil good values in him, his former friend betrayed his own advice.
He told the Guardian newspaper: "Caine gave me all my early values, like making sure you were doing good stuff, waiting for the right things - then as soon as he got away he did exactly the opposite. Went from one movie to another."
Stamp enjoyed incredible career success when he first broke into the industry, but found work opportunities harder to come by as he got older.
He reflected: "It's a mystery to me. I was in my prime. When the 1960s ended, I just ended with it. I remember my agent telling me: 'They are all looking for a young Terence Stamp.' And I thought: 'I am young.' I was 31, 32. I couldn't believe it.
"It was tough to wake up in the morning, and the phone not ringing. I thought: this can't be happening now, it's only just started. The day-to-day thing was awful, and I couldn't live with it. So I bought a round-the-world ticket and left."

Disney has officially commissioned a 'Frozen' sequel.
John Lasseter, chief creative officer of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, announced the news during a shareholders meeting in San Francisco, where it was also confirmed 'Frozen' co-directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee will be involved in the sequel.
Lasseter said the writers and performers were more than happy to make a sequel, having recently reunited for the animated short 'Frozen Fever', which debuts this month.
He said: "We enjoyed making 'Frozen Fever' so much and being back in that world with those characters
"Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck have come up with a great idea for a sequel and you will be hearing a lot more about it and we're taking you back to Arendelle. We are so excited about that."
Although the announcement had been widely anticipated, Buck and Lee recently denied suggestions they were preparing to make a sequel.
Lee said: "We don't really know what it's like to stop for a minute and think about what we want to do next."
The 2013 original starred Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel and Jonathan Groff, but it's yet to be revealed whether they will reprise their roles for the sequel.

Jamie Dornan says it's "total b*****ks" his wife banned him from starring in a 'Fifty Shades of Grey' sequel.
The 32-year-old actor, who played the role of Christian Grey in the film adaptation of the best-selling book by author E.L. James, has been rumoured to want out of the franchise, but he insists his wife - actress Amelia Warner - has no qualms about him appearing in the films.
He shared: "The idea was that we honour the trilogy and do all three [movies]."
Asked whether his wife is keen for him to quit the role because of the explicit sex scenes, he replied: "Total b*****ks!"
Jamie revealed his wife read the movie's script before it was released, and is fully supportive of him.
He told the Daily Mail newspaper: "Of course [Amelia] would have read the scripts well in advance, and she's massively supportive of Fifty Shades."
Jamie also dismissed suggestions there was a lack of chemistry with his co-star Dakota Johnson, 25.
He said: "They wouldn't have shot the film with us if there was a chemistry problem ... whatever chemistry means. You have to jump through a lot of hoops to get a part like this, and they simply wouldn't have cast us."

Felicity Jones has been confirmed to star in the first stand-alone 'Star Wars' movie.
The 'Theory of Everything' actress will appear in 'Rogue One' - which 'Godzilla' filmmaker Gareth Edwards will direct - though the exact nature of her role wasn't discussed when Disney confirmed the news yesterday (12.03.15).
A statement about the movie, which will be released on December 16, 2016, read: "'Rogue One' is the first film in a unique series of big-screen stories that explores the characters and events beyond the core 'Star Wars' saga.
"The idea for the story of 'Rogue One' came from John Knoll, an Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor and chief creative officer at Industrial Light & Magic... The film starts shooting this summer in London."
Though the plot hasn't been announced, it is expected the movie will be connected the Rogue Squadron, an elite Rebel Alliance starfighter squadron.
It was also announced that 'Star Wars Episode VIII' will be released on May 26, 2017 - 40 years and a day after the original movie was released in 1977 and just a year and a half after 'Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens', which is out on December 18, 2015.
The release date marks the shortest gap between two 'Star Wars' movies.

Ryan Reynolds says 'Deadpool' will be made in a way that "the most critical of fanboys could embrace".
The much-anticipated sci-fi movie has been 11 years in the making - having encountered various obstacles along the way - and Reynolds says it won't disappoint fans of the Marvel character.
He told ShortList magazine: "I'm incredibly happy about it, we've got a director that understands that world, and writers with a lavish devotion to the canon of that character.
"That's the most important aspect: it's made in a way the most critical of fanboys could embrace. Well, that's the hope."
This comes shortly after Reynolds said 'Deadpool' will be the "movie we want to make".
He said: "It's been a long time, but it's happened in the right way and that's all that matters.
"We don't have the kind of money that most superhero movies do, but that's great, actually. Necessity is the mother of invention, and that's why we get to make the movie we want to make."
What's more, the actor - who starred in the 'Green Lantern' movie in 2011 - said he isn't feeling any more pressure to make 'Deadpool' a success.
He added: "You gotta have faith in the people you're working with, and have faith in the prep, and that's all I'm doing. On this one, the prep's been 11 years. You'd like to think you're putting your best foot forward, but we'll see."

Gemma Arterton couldn't resist playing a "talking head in the fridge" in 'The Voices'.
The 29-year-old English actress - who's previously starred in 'Quantum of Solace' and 'Clash of the Titans' - says she was drawn to the unusual role of Fiona in the Marjane Satrapi-directed black comedy movie because it marked a stark contrast to the films she'd previously been making.
She explained: "I'd been doing all of these big Hollywood movies and I hadn't really been feeling them.
"I like things that are a bit strange, a bit dark, that make you think. I read this script and just loved it.
"My character, I get to play just a talking head in the fridge. And that for me, was something I thought that I've got to do it."
Arterton explained that although there are some dark themes explored in the movie - which also features Ryan Reynolds and Anna Kendrick - it triggered lots of laughter, too.
She told BBC Radio 1: "[Alfred] Hitchcock said that when people would laugh at his horrors it was the biggest compliment.
"This film is a horror in some aspects, because when you're so awkward and you've got too much emotion, often it comes out in laughter."