Nancy Juvonen Quotes

Nancy Juvonen

Profession : Producer

Birth : May 18, 1967

You may hear the most beautiful things, you may hear promises, you may hear everything you want to hear but if the person you're dating is not following up with their actions then they're just words.

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But Jimmy sees life as an opportunity and happiness as a choice. He's cheery in the morning. He wakes up happy. He gets the joke of life.

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I don't do Instagram, I don't do Facebook.

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There's more to directing than plotting scenes out.

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Children crave direction.

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Moviemaking is about telling a story. And you need to know what story you are going to tell.

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Once you get one actor to say yes, that leads to a second, and the third yes leads to a fourth - there's a kind of comfort zone that occurs where each actor realizes, 'You're not selling this movie on me, so if it totally doesn't work, then its not all on my head.'

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I loved the notion of why women don't tell each other the truth and why we find the friend who will tell us, 'You're not hearing back from the guy because he must have been called out of town.'

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I didn't just dip my toe into the pool of romantic comedies.

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Thank God I'm still on my feet. I went for the worst guys ever in order to recognize somebody who was good for me.

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I think it's such a courageous thing to look around and say, 'If I don't get to be one of the lucky ones who are born with a family, how do I put that in my life?'

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Making an independent film is so different.

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It was a difficult but wonderful balance to go from big budget, big craziness, everyone's giant trailers, everyone's sushi lunches, to a $4 million movie.

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