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.

Nicole Holofcener

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.

Nicole Holofcener

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

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

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.

Nicole Holofcener

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

Nicole Holofcener

To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.

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 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

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

My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.

Nicole Holofcener

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.

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

When I hear that a project takes place out of town, the material better be terrific, and it has to come at the right time. My kids are getting older, so it's getting easier, but being a mother - it's a difficult thing to juggle.

Nicole Holofcener

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.

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