Nicole Holofcener Quotes

I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.

I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T. Anderson it was Scorsese and Jonathan Demme.

Movies have only fascinated me; they've cultivated me, made me the person I am today.

My all-time favorites that I always go back to are films by the director John Cassavetes. The movies he made, the work he left behind, have been a big influence for my work.

'Out of Sight' is one of my favorite films ever. Love Steven Soderbergh. 'Goodfellas' was a huge influence on me in terms of the use of camera. 'Black Orpheus,' a beautiful love story that very few people actually have seen, and that was an influence on 'Beyond the Lights,' too, in terms of the look of the film.

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

Scorsese's been a hero of mine since I was young. If you saw 'Swingers,' you know I was definitely fixated on his body of work.

With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those movies wore that on their sleeve.

The reverberation of the freedom of making 'Schizopolis' absolutely resulted in 'Out of Sight' and everything that followed.

I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.

I can say that I've become a David Fincher disciple. I have been completely turned.

If 'Soorma' is getting me noticed, I have the director, Shaad Ali, to thank for it.

I've followed Mysskin sir's work, and I really like his style of filmmaking.

I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.

It's a kind of honour when I see how many people are imitating the style of how I make films.

I'm a big fan of Woody Allen. I used to love the fact that he wrote his own screenplay and acted in the movie.

I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and put them into songs.

I had seen 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' and I thought that was a different kind of film than I'd seen before, with that kind of editing and slick camera movements.

All my movies are copies of Hollywood, some of them pretty trashy copies. All filmmakers copy from Hollywood.

I'm a Coen Brothers fan - especially their early work.

When I have been told that my films remind people of Ozu, I have never been too convinced.

Kurosawa is my hero, and I've taught courses on his films, and I love what he does, and 'Rashomon' is, I think, his second greatest film after 'Ikiru.'

Some people have iconic directors in their mind, or they want to make particular styles of films they have seen before. I think this is a waste of time and energy.

I got into the movie business because of 'Days of Heaven.'

My favorite film is 'The Shining,' mostly because it was the film that inspired me to become a filmmaker myself.