19 Quotes by Valerie Faris

Our marriage has survived because we do things we love.

The American dream tells you that you'll have success if you work hard enough, and we have some concerns about that fallacy. Hopefully, the characters in our films learn to redefine success.

Some scripts you feel like everything is precious.

I love small films, and I love films being seen in a theater. I love film, and unfortunately, that's being phased out.

One of the great things about shooting in Los Angeles is you have access to all these great performers. We love working with ensembles, and that process of getting a great group of people together and setting them in motion.

'Ruby Sparks' has been sold like a romcom in the States. But we never saw it like that.

We had a couple of films that, in the course of working on them, the budget shrank to the point where we couldn't make it. They literally ran the numbers: They took our numbers and the stars' numbers, and when they calculated whether we could make our money back or not, it said no.

We were alive during the 'Battle of the Sexes', but that story hadn't really been told.

Comedy writing is the hardest, and yet there's so much that's relatable in it.