Nancy Meyers

“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.”

“תוכניות מציאות הורידו את הסטנדרטים של הבידור. אתה נשאר תוהה לגבי הלגיטימיות של מערכות יחסים. כנראה שקשה יותר לבדר את אותם אנשים עם צורת כתיבה יותר קלאסית, וקומדיות רומנטיות הן ז'אנר קלאסי.”

“אני לא שחקנית. וגם לא הייתי כמו ג'ורג' לוקאס או ספילברג, שיצרתי סרטים ביתיים בתור נערה. אבל הייתי חוזרת וצופה בסרטים מסוימים שוב ושוב. כשראיתי את 'הבוגר' הייתי מודעת לאופן שבו אפשר לספר את הסיפורים המדהימים הללו.”

“תמיד התברכתי בביטחון. אני בן אדם של חצי הכוס המלאה. הסרט הראשון שלי, 'טוראית בנג'מין', נדחה על ידי כל אולפן עד לאחרון, אבל אני פשוט כל הזמן חשבתי, 'למה אתם לא רואים שזה סרט להיט? מה לא בסדר איתכם?'.”

“אני לא מצלמת סרטים במהירות כי יש לי הרבה כיסוי והרבה זוויות, אז יש לנו את כל הקטעים בעריכה. אני עושה הרבה טייקים, אבל זה בגלל שאני מחפשת משהו.”

“My movies are not messed with by the studios.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.”

“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?'”

“I really wanted to be a writer.”

“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.”

“I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”