67 Quotes by 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.

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until its over.

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.

I'm not crazy about having my picture taken. I'd rather talk my head off.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.