Nicole Holofcener Quotes

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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• We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

  

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• I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.

  

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• The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

  

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• I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

  

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• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  

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• I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.

  

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• If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

  

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• I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.

  

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• I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

  

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• I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.

  

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• I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

  

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• The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.

  

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• The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

  

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• As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.

  

  Laura Dern
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• If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.

  

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• Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.

  

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• The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

  

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• Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.

  

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• A lot of the vibe in London is being sucked dry because of the economic situation. It's very expensive, and it gives you nothing back. New York still feels like there's stuff going on. People are struggling to create art. There's still a vibe.

  

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• In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.

  

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• The Thames is liquid history.

  

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• The kingdom of heaven is closer than the brow above the eye but mankind does not see it.

  

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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?

  

  Nicole Holofcener
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  • Want
  • Camera