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The older I got, the less pretentious I got in my art tastes and work.
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Pretentious
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I started really idolizing people like Nicole Holofcener and Whit Stillman.
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Nicole
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I want to be someone who takes risks but also stays engaged by trying new things.
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Engaged
New Things
Stays
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Our friendships are really the epicenter of our social world and emotional lives.
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Friendships
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Friendships have been such an important part of my life both emotionally and logistically.
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Life Important My Life
Emotionally
Life My Life Important
Friendships
Important Part
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Any place where the Jewish district is the hipster district is a very surreal and awesome place.
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Surreal
Awesome
District
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After my first film, I was having trouble finding a second film. I had a lot of attempts that failed.
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Attempts
Failed
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I still feel, when I meet actresses, no matter how high-profile they are, that they are starved for good roles.
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High Profile
Good Feel Matter
Starved
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When the mumblecore 'Tiny Furniture' thing happened, it reminded me of the thing we were trying to do in my little 1995 way.
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Furniture
Tiny
Me Way Trying
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You can have a lot of destruction, but in a realistic female movie, the women are going to be aware of that destruction and apologizing for it.
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Apologizing
Destruction
Realistic
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It's become my lifetime passion as a writer to try to show female friendships in the way that I see them, which is as emotional and connected and deep.
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Lifetime
Friendships
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I love Nicole Holofcener's films for their constant duality of humor and emotion and their focus on very real, if flawed, dynamics between funny people.
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Duality
Dynamics
Flawed
Funny People
Nicole
Funny Love Humor
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It's been increasingly hard to make small stories about female friendship, and, definitely, those stories don't have any shot of getting a theatrical release.
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Friendship
Release
Theatrical
Increasingly
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I have these wonderful friends, and they're supportive and loving, and you can really be yourself around them in a way some people even can't with their partners.
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Partners
Supportive
Yourself People Way
Yourself Be Yourself People
Be Yourself
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As women, I think we're used to looking around to see what people think about this, who's approving of us, who's criticizing us, and whether we have to internalize their thoughts on us.
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Approving
Criticizing
Internalize
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I studied English in college and approached filmmaking from a writing background while trying to learn as much as I could about the technical side of things by making shorts and a webseries.
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Filmmaking
Shorts
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I love watching action films, and especially the little moments of wit and humor in the choreography in a lot of them. The editing of an action sequence often has great moments of comic timing.
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Action Films
Choreography
Great Moments
Sequence
Timing
Wit
Love Humor Great
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My writing partner, Joni Lefkowitz, and I love studying girl friendships in particular because they seem defined by a combination of codependent intimacy and subtle, constant passive-aggressiveness.
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Combination
Defined
Intimacy
Subtle
Friendships
Partner
Studying
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I didn't have a lot of men to ask questions of when I was starting out. There were two female directors people suggested I talk to when I was starting out, and they were Nancy Meyers and Kathryn Bigelow.
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Nancy
Suggested
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Micro humor is a joke that's contained in the writing: it's a punch line, it's a turn of phrase, it's something that you can see on the page, and no matter who's saying it, it is, in and of itself, a funny line.
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Funny
Humor
Itself
Contained
Line
Micro
Page
Phrase
Punch
Punch Line
Saying
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In Providence, we didn't have a first-run movie theater. But we did have an indie movie theatre on the Brown campus. That was the theater we'd go to. I think, as highbrow as it sounds, that I grew up on the films.
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Campus
Movie Theater
Providence
Highbrow
Indie
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We're so used to seeing women in movies about a romance where they don't seem to have any inner fortitude. They're completely defined by their relationships, and it's hard to engage with those characters and relate to them.
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Defined
Fortitude
Romance
Inner
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When I was in high school, I was writing a lot. I dealt with my high school angst by writing short plays and short films. I was obsessed with reading 'Entertainment Weekly' and 'Premiere' and 'Movieline' and all those magazines.
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Angst
Short Films
Dealt
Premiere
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If you're a filmmaker who grew up wanting to make a movie for people to have that female experience of sitting in the theater together, it's hard to do unless you can compete with the bigger spectacles that are being offered to them.
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Spectacles
Experience Together People
Compete
Offered
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I was a heathen Jewess with no bat mitzvah. Only the neurosis, the brown hair, and the self-deprecating humor. But being one of the only Jewish kids in my WASPy hometown definitely informed my perspective on the humor of being an outsider.
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Heathen
Hometown
Mitzvah
Neurosis
Self Deprecating
Informed
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I have to say, my family's always been incredibly open and encouraging of any way I might want to express myself. At a very young age, they accepted that my outlet would be writing, and comedic writing, and they were pretty accepting of that.
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Encouraging
Accepted
Young Age
Outlet
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I feel like most movies about female friends derive their conflict from an extension of the high school movie rivalries, or there's some petty grievance: a competition over a guy or a wedding date or something. And I don't relate to any of that.
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Wedding
Conflict
Grievance
Petty
Date
Derive
Extension
Rivalries
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I think it's good that we're talking about it, but I think there's still a gendered nature to the way that people see female directors' skill sets. And I think we need to keep examining that. I don't know if people know how complicated the issue really is.
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Examining
Nature Good People
Sets
Skill
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So many of my favorite stories, in any medium, are about friendship. Those relationships are so often just as emotional and complex as any romantic or family dynamics, and yet there's a dearth of resonant, grounded films about platonic bonds in American films.
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Friendship
Dynamics
Grounded
Platonic
Bonds
Dearth
Medium
Resonant
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Culturally, as women, we're raised to be very concerned with others' approval in a way that men aren't, but an inevitable part of directing and being visionary is that you have to be a boss, and as such, not everyone is going to like you all the time or agree with your choices.
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Approval
Time Men Women
Directing
Time Women Men
Visionary
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Economics drive the creative, and for a long time, movies about men were just considered 'movies,' whereas movies about women were considered niche and only appealing to women. This is to an extent still true, and what it does is represent movies about women as less profitable.
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Niche
Profitable
Time Men Women
Appealing
Extent
Time Women Men
Whereas
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I have felt that there's a lot of receptiveness to female stories now. I think some of it has a little bit - a lot of it is economically driven and driven by, just, kind of studios wanting to check that box because now they know they have a woman problem that they need to solve.
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Driven
Studios
Check
Economically
Just Kind
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Men starting out have so many options of filmmakers to connect with artistically and be shepherded by and collaborate with. I just didn't have an older, more experienced me to help me. So I hope all the women making movies now are aware we have the opportunity to be that to new filmmakers.
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Hope Men Women
Experienced
Hope Women Men
Making Movies
Options
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Have confidence in your own voice, be entrepreneurial, and take big risks with the knowledge that, by default of being a woman, people are going to advise you to be conservative, play it safe, make sure everyone likes you, and constantly question whether or not you're ready to be in charge.
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Advise
Default
Entrepreneurial
Charge
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I'm a writer-director originally from Rhode Island, now living in Los Angeles. I've spent the past eleven years working with a writing partner, Joni Lefkowitz, and am now making the transition into feature directing thanks to this script we wrote together and our incredible producer Jordana Mollick.
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Eleven
Rhode Island
Thanks
Directing
Feature
Island
Producer
Originally
Partner
Rhode
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On 'The Spy Who Dumped Me,' it wasn't fear as much as it was feeling overwhelmed because there were so many moving parts. But I felt that I knew what I was doing. And on a movie like this, there's so much preparation that goes into it that by the time you were there, you had done months of planning.
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Dumped
Months
Moving Parts
Overwhelmed
Planning
Preparation
Spy
Time Fear Me
By The Time
Parts
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I was constantly reading books about how to direct, and asking directors, 'How do you do it?' And when I finally actually started doing the work, it seemed like you have to be decisive and have an opinion. But also you have to be a good collaborator and hire the right people to shore up whatever your skill set is.
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Reading Books
Shore
Work Good People
Work Good Your
Collaborator
Decisive
Hire
Right People
Skill
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The process of working with the second unit director and basically sharing your workload with another director is such an interesting, delicate thing - and entrusting that person with your vision and making sure that you are not adding a completely different aesthetic to the mix that you don't have to contend with in editing.
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Aesthetic
Delicate
Adding
Contend
Mix
Sharing
Unit
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As a consumer, I love action movies and have a lot of opinions about how action comedies don't really do justice to what I find exciting about an action movie, which is the genuine thrill of watching something that feels really high-stakes. A lot of times, it's played for laughs and action, which waters down the sense of danger.
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Action Movie
Danger
Feels
Genuine
Thrill
Comedies
Consumer
Laughs
Opinions
Waters
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I try to write from a place of writing what I know, and what I know is interesting and appropriate women with edgy senses of humor. They're not soft people, so why are all the movies about women soft? My friends are all blazing their own paths. Some are married with kids, but a lot of them aren't. Some of them don't want that life.
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Appropriate
Blazing
Edgy
Senses
Paths
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I love action movies, and I love comedy, and I love writing comedy, but the genre of action-comedy - or, at least, as it currently usually is - is just not something that I feel that compelled by, generally, because I find the action to be silly, or it's too slapstick, or the stakes feel low because people are joking in the middle of it.
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Compelled
Silly
Slapstick
Stakes
Love Movies People
Action Movies
Love Movies Action
Currently
Joking
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When you're watching a Bond movie, if there's a violent death, there's something about cleverly chosen twists, or what props are used, or some way that he's doing something that feels like an ironic twist, that feels like it gives the audience permission to enjoy watching it and to enjoy watching something that's otherwise just brutality.
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Bond Movie
Chosen
Ironic
Permission
Props
Twists
Bond
Twist
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My way of dealing with not really fitting in at my very crappy New England high school and junior high was to write sketch comedy and satirical takedowns of the social hierarchies. At the same time, I was developing a love for movies at the height of the '90s New York indie movie explosion: everything from 'Rushmore' to Nicole Holofcener movies.
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Developing
Fitting
Height
Junior High
New England
Nicole
Satirical
Sketch Comedy
Love Time Movies
Crappy
Explosion
Fitting In
Hierarchies
Indie
Junior
Sketch
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