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" Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together. "
Me
Together
Shorthand
" Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until it's over. "
Time
Funny
Having A Good Time
" Hollywood always likes to create a star. "
Create
Star
Likes
" 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. "
Think
Who
Change
" I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever. "
Cool
Good
Girl
" I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there. "
Feel
Personality
Like
" I don't have a drawer full of ideas. I kind of look around and take notes and wonder what could actually be a whole movie. And each time, I think I'm going to do it more commercial this time; I'm going to get a big budget and make it. But I always come up with some small idea. "
Time
Look
Wonder
" I don't think of myself in a political way, though I am definitely a feminist. "
Way
Think
Political
" If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks. "
Perfect
Control
Woman
" If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal. "
Doing
Above
Script
" 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. "
Know
Honest
Behavior
" 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. "
Things
Stack
Position
" I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real. "
Choose
Live
Dress
" 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. "
Character
Mind
Forget
" 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. "
Mother
Hair
Makeup
" 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? "
Way
Why
Care
" I'm not a producer and I don't even know the places my producer goes to, thankfully. "
Producer
Places
Even
" I'm not crazy about having my picture taken. I'd rather talk my head off. "
Picture
Talk
Head
" 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. "
Him
Years
Girlfriend
" I'm still shooting on low budgets, though none of my movies has lost money, and I rarely get sent anything that stars a guy or is a thriller or is seriously dramatic. And I would love the opportunity to do those things. "
Love
Lost
Money
" I'm sure it's more difficult for women to make movies, especially because, in general, the kind of movies women want to make aren't necessarily going to be blockbusters. But you know, there are so few women in so many positions of power. "
Know
Kind
Women
" I'm willing to give up a little control but not a lot. So I say I want the money, but when push comes to shove, I'm not sure I'll be able to compromise in order to make the big studio movie. Maybe something in between would be okay, like a low-budget studio film. "
Push
Money
Control
" 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. "
Living
Career
Me
" 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. "
Own
Good
Unique
" 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. "
Love
Fun
Funny
" It's harder to take care of kids than it is to make a movie. "
Care
Than
Take Care
" 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. "
Then
Years
Year
" 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. "
Work
Take
Camera
" My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune. "
Obviously
Movies
Make
" The fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing. "
My Own
Own
Personal
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