screenwriter
Directora y escritora de cine estadounidense (1941–2012)
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Join the roomNora Ephron fue una escritora, dramaturga, periodista y cineasta estadounidense. Conocida por escribir y dirigir películas de comedia romántica, recibió numerosos reconocimientos, entre ellos un premio BAFTA, así como nominaciones a tres premios de la Academia, un premio Tony, un premio Globo de Oro y tres premios del Sindicato de Guionistas de Estados Unidos.
“Stare at me in this faceless way, go mad with desire, and rip my clothes off. It's terrific. In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. The fantasy of rape — of which mine is in a kind of prepubescent sub-category — is common enough among women and (in mirror image) among men.”
“I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.”
“Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. I think of it as my own personal bride's disease.”
“It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are entering a third era, in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.”
“Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist.”
“"Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don’t take it off until you’re thirty-four."”
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