Quotations | HOLLYWOOD ( and all that )

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

“That’s your problem! You don’t want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.” (Sleepless in Seattle)

“The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It’s followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.”

“And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.” (Heartburn)

“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”

Ephron with sons Jacob (l.) and Max (front)

“I’ll have what she’s having.” (When Harry Met Sally)

“Filmmaking is rarely glamorous. Being ankle deep in pig shit every day is the reality.”

“A film director has to have the sensitivity of a poet and the stamina of a construction worker. The trouble is that rather too many of us get it the wrong way around.”

Alan Parker directing Bob Geldof in Pink Floyd The Wall (1982)

“Francois Truffaut said that British Cinema was an oxymoron. (Like French Rock music.)”

“I think you have to be strong willed and swift of foot to survive in Hollywood. I always said we are guerrillas on bicycles stealing our art away from them.”