Nicole Holofcener famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Together
I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Personality #Feels #Native
Hollywood always likes to create a star.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Stars #Likes #Hollywood
I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Girl #Good Friend #Cool Girl
Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until its over.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Waiting #Able #Good Times
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.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Fun #Fall #Reality
What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Writing #Character #Female
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.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Writing #Unique #Past
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.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Writing #Thinking #Unique
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

#Crazy #Thinking #Being Crazy
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.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Thinking #Scary #Worried
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

#Class #Different #Realizing
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.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Morning #Hate #Character
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.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Thinking #Trying #Filmmaking
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

#Photography #Character #Thinking
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.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Fun #Nice #Silly
I hear a lot of, "We want to make a movie with you." Then "No, we don't want to make this one. We want to make that other movie with you." I don't really get that and it's very frustrating. It angers me. Because my movies are my movies.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Frustrating
The casting director on the movie made me aware of her. She told me what to watch Starter For Ten, which I did and thought she was great in. She was just so charming and beautiful. But I felt she could probably look plain if we tried. And when I subsequently met with her, I was so charmed by her vulnerability and sweetness. Those were two qualities that were the most important for that character.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Beautiful #Character #Two
I'd rather go for Scorsese and De Niro. I just think he was so much better.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Thinking #De Niro #Scorsese
I think having a good life prompts it... anybody who has a good life and looks around them sees the enormous disparity that exists in the world between those people who do and those that don't. I can't say we walk about our guilt a lot, though. If we do, it probably comes out in the form of self-loathing jokes. But it's a tough thing to wrap your head around... the have's and have not's in the world.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Good Life #Thinking #Self
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.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Art #Thinking #Term
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
What are we taking from people and what do we give is a life-long struggle, I think, for most of us. Who are we? Do we like who we are? Do we know who we are? Do we care? Does anyone care? That's such a big topic. I could tackle that in many movies. So could other people.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Struggle #Thinking #People
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.
-- Nicole Holofcener

#Let It Go #Different

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