Nancy Meyers Quotes

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.

I judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on 'The Right Stuff.' Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven,' which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart.

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.

I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.

There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.

I guess the first screenplay of mine that was done was 'Falling in Love' with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep.

It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.

I love the medium of film.

Filmmaking is something that I'm really passionate about. Film, in general, is something that I'm passionate about.

I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'

Be it cinema or TV, I have always been interested in taking up challenging projects.

Filmmaking, whatever the window dressing or the scale of a film may be, is eventually about telling a story.

As a filmmaker, I don't want to limit myself to one kind of movie. After 'Headhunters,' I went to Hollywood and read a lot of scripts: lots of action thrillers and heist movies, and superhero films.

TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.

I love watching movies, and I'm very inspired by movies when it comes to songwriting!

Language is just a communication tool; it is the content that decides the fate of a film.

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

Film is a very intimate medium.