Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron
Nora Ephronwas an American journalist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth19 May 1941
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
mean army gun
[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!
running jobs real
Women are being considered as candidates for vice-president of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing that men will take it. A job with real power is first lady. I'd be willing to run for that. As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
laughing lasts causes
I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ‘cause I get to be funny about it.
feminism consciousness illusion
Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.
black
Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.
age want aging
I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.
men mind literature
So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are deeply ingrained, not just in society but in literature. The women's movement may manage to clean up the mess in society, but I don't know whether it can ever clean up the mess in our minds.
writing thinking paper
I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free of it. And you're not, of course; you've just managed to set it down on paper, that's all.
writing confusion directing-movies
One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.
writing views tone
I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view. I know exactly where I'm going as soon as I have the lead.
lasts meals hungry
Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.
expectations want settling
I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?
swans monogamy ifs
If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.
mean getting-older legs
Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore.