Nicole Holofcener Quotes

United States, Film Director
March 22, 1960

Nicole Holofcener (/ˈhɒləfˌsɛnər/) is an American film and television director and screenwriter. She has directed five feature films, including Friends with Money and Enough Said as well as various television series. Holofcener was a student of director Martin Scorsese.

Also known as Television Director, Screenwriter

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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- Movie
- Want
- Camera
The stories that I want to tell are completely, well somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

Nicole Holofcener

I thought I could make a sarcastic joke about it. But it's based on my own struggle with how much to give, how much it's really helping or not, and how foolish or not I feel. Giving sometimes backfires.

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- Struggle
- Joke
- Backfire
What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.

Nicole Holofcener
- Character
- Female
- Trick
I don't think of myself in a political way, though I am definitely a feminist.

Nicole Holofcener
- Think
- Political
- Feminist
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.

Nicole Holofcener
- Job
- Movie
- Style
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.

Nicole Holofcener
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.

Nicole Holofcener
- Movie
- Head
- Flexible

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

Nicole Holofcener
- Star
- Create
- Hollywood
Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until its over.

Nicole Holofcener
- Over
- Good Time
- Filming