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I really wanted to be a writer.
Nancy Meyers / Film Director
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My movies are not messed with by the studios.
Nancy Meyers / Film Director
Studios
Messed
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I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, whats the point?
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Meals
Remember
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I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?
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Meals
Otherwise
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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Older People
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We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.
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Niche
Filmmakers
Films
Row
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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Cheesecake
Odd
Philadelphia
Scripts
Struggle
Trying
Aged
Commissioned
Rent
Struggling
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I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.
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Coverage
Editing
Angles
Quickly
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There's this perception that if you worry a lot and if you look really busy and stressed out then you'll be more successful. You talk about how little sleep you get and how tensed you are and how you're not getting the appreciation you deserve.
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Appreciation
Smile
Sleep
Stress
Successful
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I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.
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Time Home Amazing
By The Time
George
George Lucas
Graduate
Lucas
Spielberg
The Graduate
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I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?'
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Confidence
Movie
Blessed
Seeing
Thinking
Thinking Always I Am
Hit
Wrong
Last
Private
Studio
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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Romantic
Classic
Entertainment
Form
Genre
Left
Legitimacy
People
Reality
Reality Tv
Standards
Writing
Tv
Same
Comedies
Entertain
Hardening
Lowered
Relationships
Romantic Comedies
Wondering
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I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.
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Film School
Journalism
Lucas
Spielberg
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I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular.
Nancy Meyers / Film Director
Diet
Bread
Carbs
Chocolate
Decided
Fads
Particular
Pasta
Month
Bar
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Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.
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Zero
Men
Ground Zero
Medicine
Path
Team
Women Money Man
Helped
Herself
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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
Nancy Meyers / Film Director
Romantic
Character
Creating
Mean
Writer
Awry
Figuring
Shape
Yes
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Sometimes when I'm writing I'll play Cole Porter, just because the rhythms and the lyrics are so perfect that it's like having a smart partner in the room. I have a huge collection of music that I listen to when I'm writing, and I also prepare a lot of music before I start directing. I put it all onto an iPod that I have with me on the set. It's helpful to the actors, because for an emotional scene, I'll play it and say, this is how it feels, to keep us in the zone.
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Emotional
Smart
Writing
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