Sofia Coppola , a director whose career stretches back decades, is disappointed in Hollywood.

In a BBC interview released Friday, the filmmaker voiced her frustration at the gender disparity in studio budgets.

I just see all these men getting hundreds of millions of dollars and then Im fighting for a tiny fraction of that, Coppola told the outlet. I think its just left over from the way the culture of that business is.

She added, Im always fighting to get it and Im just happy to get to make my movies independently and find people that believe in them.

Coppola was born to acclaimed director Francis Ford Coppola, but made her own mark with 1999s The Virgin Suicides and 2003s Lost in Translation .

Still, as her male peers are typically offered bigger budgets, Sofia Coppola said she took a more frugal approach for her recent film Priscilla, with less than $20 million.

Theres a challenge and a freedom in making things small because if you have a big budget, you have a lot of input from studio executives, and I would never be able to make a movie like that, she told the BBC. So I have that freedom. And then you have to be really crafty.

Coppola added that it was really hard, but that she had the best team around her.