Quotes by Nicole Holofcener

About Nicole Holofcener:

Nicole Holofcener is an American film and television director and screenwriter. She has directed five feature films, including Friends With Money and Enough Said.
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The fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing.

Nicole Holofcener

It's harder to take care of kids than it is to make a movie.

Nicole Holofcener

I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.

Nicole Holofcener

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 don't think of myself in a political way, though I am definitely a feminist.

Nicole Holofcener

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.

Nicole Holofcener

I'm not a producer and I don't even know the places my producer goes to, thankfully.

Nicole Holofcener

I'm somebody's ex-wife, and I did things that drove him nuts. And now I'm somebody's girlfriend, for many years, and I've got different things that drive him nuts.

Nicole Holofcener

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

Nicole Holofcener

I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who I pictured.

Nicole Holofcener

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

Nicole Holofcener

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

Nicole Holofcener

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

Nicole Holofcener

I rarely need career advice because I don't have a career. No, that's not true. I can't really go far away while my kids are living with me.

Nicole Holofcener

I'm being photographed, worrying about my hair - and yet here I am, I've directed a feature film, why do I care about the way I look? Who cares? Does Tim Burton care? Does Joel Coen?

Nicole Holofcener

If you keep the situations real, the characters' behavior will be real and honest, too. If they're suddenly robbing a bank and exchanging snappy dialogue, well, I wouldn't even know how to write that.

Nicole Holofcener

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

Nicole Holofcener

I went to NYU for a year and a half, and I graduated from there and then years later went to Columbia for graduate school.

Nicole Holofcener

I'm not crazy about having my picture taken. I'd rather talk my head off.

Nicole Holofcener

Hollywood is lacking realness in their female characters. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks that and wants to change it.

Nicole Holofcener

Author Bio

  • NameNicole Holofcener
  • DescriptionAmerican film director
  • BornMarch 22, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Director; Screenwriter