India, June 27 -- In an era of action cinema, director and former actor Sofia Coppola says that she doesn't prefer watching "overdone" violent films, as it is quite "upsetting" for her. While speaking at a masterclass at the Biarritz' Nouvelles Vagues Festival, she said that watching violence in cinema "upsets" her due to the gun violence in the US. "There's so much gun violence in my country. It's really hard to see [those] movies. Old cowboys are cool, but just the way [violence] is overdone now is upsetting," said Sofia as quoted by Variety. She cited Martin Scorsese as a filmmaker whose movies have violence that serves a narrative purpose. "I love Scorsese, so there are moments for it," she said, adding that "violent themes can be interesting or insinuating. But really, gory, not so much for me." At the talk, Sofia also spoke about the making of her film The Virgin Suicides (1999). She said a male director was initially developing the adaptation of the Jeffrey Eugenides's novel by the same name before she came on board with a different take. "When I read the book, I loved it, and I heard that a guy was going to make it. He was going to make it very dark and sexual. I was like, 'That's not how I see it. I hope they don't make it like that'," she said. The director shared that she started adapting a few chapters to "learn how you adapt a book into a screenplay," and later on, when she felt confident enough, she asked the producers to consider her script "if it didn't work out with the guy they had." Eventually, Sofia directed the film, which world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999 and became a cult classic. htc...