Nora Ephron Movie Quotes & Sayings

We're saved somewhat by Google. You can - when you're all sitting around the table desperately snapping your fingers in the hopes of remembering the name of that movie that you can't remember the name of - you can make people think that you are not as old as you actually are because you have the technology to find the answer. — Nora Ephron

If we do have any iPhone users out there, I have incredibly great news for you. I've developed after about six months and finally perfected and it'll be out on the market soon, an app that you'll all want. It allows you to make a phone call. — Kevin Pollak

It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked. — Nora Ephron

For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel. — Pete Hamill

My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending. — Nora Ephron

My 13-year-old daughter leaves the house at 7:15 every morning and takes a smelly city bus to school way uptown. It's like 8 degrees out, and it's dark and she's got this morning face and I send her out there to take a bus. Meanwhile, my driver is sitting in a toasty Mercedes that's going to take me to work once both kids are gone. I could send her in the Mercedes and then have it come back to get me, but I can't have my kid doing that. I can't do that to her. Me? I earned that f - ing Mercedes. You better f - ing believe it. — Louis C.K.

Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it." — Jessa Crispin

The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino. - Joe Fox — Nora Ephron

Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun. — Nora Ephron

I was just taking her hand to help her out of a cab. And it was like ... magic. — Nora Ephron

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie. — Nora Ephron

He didn't care who Laurent took to bed. He — C.S. Pacat

Love and gratitude are always the source of happiness, not success. — Debasish Mridha

It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever after and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work. — Nora Ephron

Departures should be sudden. — Benjamin Disraeli

I used to only worry about the #1's and all of the awards. But that was a long time ago. — Wynonna Judd

The plus size movement is not just about fashion; it's about body image, and if we're doing a shoot, they won't retouch us at all. That's the cool thing: there's no retouching at all because we want to give girls the truth, not a fabrication. — Hayley Hasselhoff

Food was supposed to be a slightly bigger part of 'Heartburn,' and it actually didn't turn out to be because of me. I just didn't find a way to make it a bigger part of the movie as I should have, and we cut several scenes in which food was a major character. — Nora Ephron

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie. — Nora Ephron

[Hollywood] is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it - the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that - so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don't even wanna be in it! — Nora Ephron

Are you happy, Ivy?' he asks, surprising me.
In my whole life, I don't think anyone ever asked me that question. — Amy Engel

I had read the scripts that Nora Ephron had written as a movie about Mike McAlary. We were never able to make it at HBO because we couldn't cast it properly and when I left I called Nora and said, "Look, I actually think that the movie luckyguyindustry has changed. It's very unlikely that you'd be able to make this as a movie. I actually think it's a play." — Colin Callender

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? — Nora Ephron

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway. — Ralph Waldo Emerson