I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever after and the following… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
[on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“That's the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there's something immensely pleasurable about moving from a complicated relationship which involves… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
'When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. When you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.' — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“I wish he were better at hailing taxis than I am; on the other hand, I realize that expectation is culturally conditioned, utterly foolish,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I never went near the Wellesley College chapel in my four years there, but I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.” — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“If I was home alone at night, I cooked myself an entire meal from one of these cookbooks. Then I sat down in front… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“The next man I was involved with lived in Boston. He taught me to cook mushrooms. He taught me that if you heat the… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
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