American - Director | March 22, 1960 -
Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until it's over.
Nicole Holofcener
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I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.
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My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.
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I'm sure it's more difficult for women to make movies, especially because, in general, the kind of movies women want to make aren't necessarily going to be blockbusters. But you know, there are so few women in so many positions of power.
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It's harder to take care of kids than it is to make a movie.
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To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.
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The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.
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I don't think of myself in a political way, though I am definitely a feminist.
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I think I'm a good writer. I think I have my own voice, which is unique to everyone - everyone has their own voice; if they would just write from a vulnerable embarrassing place, it's going to be universal, and it's going to be entertaining. Because everyone is the same, and everyone is unique.
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If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks.
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I'm a director, but I gotta have the hair, the makeup and the heels. My mother would be appalled if I didn't dress up.
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I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work.
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