Nicole Holofcener Quotes

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• Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until its over.

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  Waiting, Able, Good Times

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• What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Writing, Character, Female

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• I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.

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  Personality, Feels, New Yorkers

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• I wrote lots of scripts that never got made and they were terrible. I thought they were good at the time. You can't write two scripts and expect your career to take off. Keep writing. Be you. Be original. A lot of people go for a genre, which is fine if you can do that really well, but we all have such layered histories. We all come from a unique background. Write about your past, write about you. Or make stuff up, but make it about something that really matters.

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  Writing, Unique, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

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  Girl, Good Friend, Cool Girl

  "Q&A: Catherine Keener, Nicole Holofcener: 'Enough Said' Duo Talk Their Unique Alliance". Interview with Ramin Setoodeh, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 1, 2013.

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• Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together.

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  Together, Shorthand

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• Hollywood always likes to create a star.

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  Stars, Hollywood, Likes

  "Nicole Holofcener Really Loves Catherine Keener's Face (So Do We)" by Nojan Aminosharei, www.elle.com. October 20, 2010.

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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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  Writing, Thinking, Unique

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think that sometimes, romantic comedies have to be really broad, and that the plot of people falling in and out of love or whatever is not enough. Enough Said had that stuff, but I wanted it to be fun and funny while also grounded in reality.

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  Fun, Fall, Thinking

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• It seemed like there were so many options in filmmaking before. If they don't want to make it, well okay, there's a hundred other places we can try. I'm not a producer and I don't even know the places my producer goes to, thankfully. But I think there are far fewer options now to releasing a movie theatrically or to getting the financing.

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  Thinking, Trying, Filmmaking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't know where my next movie is going to get financed or if it will. I think every filmmaker is probably worried about that, unless their movie made a fortune. My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune. So yeah, it's scary.

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  Thinking, Scary, Worried

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Marriages are so complicated that no one person is the culprit. But, I am really interested in class without really realizing that I am. It's more the manifestations of different classes that interest me.

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  Class, Different, Realizing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The movie is in my head and that's the movie. But I'd be crazy to not be flexible. I think because I have the movie in my head, I can be flexible. I know what's going to work and not work and I know, generally, what I can change and bend and have the movie still work.

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  Crazy, Thinking, Being Crazy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My idea of no makeup on actors is really no makeup. I mean, they can be wearing makeup. I don't care what they're wearing as long as it looks like they're not wearing makeup. But an actress will suddenly appear with some lipstick on. And that's makeup. Keener's character wears makeup. Her character would wear makeup. I try to stay true to whoever that person is. I hate that kind of thing where you're waking up in the morning with makeup on in a movie. I just think it pulls you out of the movie.

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  Morning, Hate, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I want the look of a movie to be secondary. I really want people to be engaged in the story and the characters and not think about a style or think about me or think about the director of photography and what a great job he's doing. I never feel like that should be there.

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  Photography, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can't take your stuff with you when you die. That doesn't mean you shouldn't enjoy it while you're alive. Why not? But it's all pretty silly. I fall victim to it. I mean, I want nice stuff too. So I guess I'm poking fun at myself as well as other materialistic people.

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  Fun, Nice, Silly

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Well, I tried being in front of the camera as a student and that was terrifying. But the press stuff about me growing up on his [film] sets has been exaggerated. I was an extra as a kid and I was also a PA [production assistant] on one of his movies, so I was lucky to get production experience. But I was nowhere near him.

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  Growing Up, Kids, Stuff

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If anything, I learned most from being a huge fan of his and watching movies like Annie Hall and Manhattan over and over again - that influenced the kind of movies that I wanted to make more than anything else.

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  Annie Hall, Manhattan, Fans

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• But then male directors also have a hard time getting their movies made... not as hard as women but it's a tough time for any movie this size. And that particular movie [The Hurt Locker] was so specific. It couldn't hurt, of course, and I'm really glad for her, but I don't know how much it will change things, if at all. The film industry is still so sexist.

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  Hurt, Hard Times, Tough Times

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The pieces of "Please Give" just did fit together. I'm very comfortable with the ensemble. I thought this was just going to be a movie about this girl who gives mammograms. She's the lead. And then before I know it, she's got a sister, neighbors, and sometimes parents and friends and then it's an ensemble. And that's what I'm comfortable with, I guess.

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  Girl, Giving, Parent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I know I repeat myself in all my movies, but I just let it go, let it happen. Clearly, I'm not finished with that issue. But they seem to me like completely different movies. They're definitely coming from me.

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  Let It Go, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do think things like old furniture and art are arbitrarily assigned. And I say that coming from an uneducated place in terms of, you know... art... curating. But who's to say what's valuable and what's not? I guess I feel like in the end it's all pretty meaningless 'cause we're all going to die.

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  Art, Thinking, Term

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  Issues, Self, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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. It's just how do you get it seen?

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  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's a struggle. It's really, really hard. I'm already nervous for my next one. You have to put more and more movie stars in movies these days. And of course, I would like to have more than $3million to make it. But, again, if that's what I was offered I wouldn't turn it down. I guess studios know that. But I'm one of the lucky ones, I guess.

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  Stars, Struggle, Next

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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