Nancy Meyers

Birthday: 8 December 1949, Pennsylvania, USA

Birth Name: Nancy Jane Meyers

Height: 155 cm

Nancy Meyers was born on December 8, 1949 in Pennsylvania, USA as Nancy Jane Meyers. She is a writer and producer, known for The Holiday (2006), The Intern (2015) and Something's Gotta Give (2003). She was previously married to Charles Shyer.

I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all...Show more »

Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself. Show less «

I really wanted to be a writer.

My movies are not messed with by the studios.

I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either....Show more »

I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told. Show less «

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 ...Show more »

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment. Show less «

I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for th...Show more »

I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular. Show less «

I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the...Show more »

I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something. Show less «

We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we g...Show more »

We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already. Show less «

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to ...Show more »

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia. Show less «

I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Be...Show more »

I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?' Show less «

I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?

Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character ...Show more »

Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them. Show less «

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're le...Show more »

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre. Show less «

Nancy Meyers's FILMOGRAPHY
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as Actor (1)
as Director (6)
as Creator (7)

Somethings Gotta Give

The 7PM Project - Season 16

eps 31

It's Complicated

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Nancy Meyers

Nancy Meyers's FILMOGRAPHY