Aline Brosh McKenna

Well, I knew Meryl was going to get nominated the first day of Prada.

We shot the scene where Andy comes to the top of the stairs and Miranda whirls around and looks at her.

And it was so terrifying.

that I took my arm and I whipped it out and I hit David in the front of the chest like we were in a car wreck.

That was my first instinct.

I went like that and I like thwapped him off the, I was like, oh my God, there's Miranda Priestly.

And I, after that take, I said to him, I mean, she's going to get nominated.

I knew that.

None.

So when I was 25, I was so miserable writing by myself, writing movies by myself, which is what I had been doing.

And I met a TV writer.

His name is Jeff Kahn, who's a really brilliant guy.

And he'd been writing on The Ben Stiller Show.

And someone put us together to write a pilot together.

The executive named Sasha Emerson was looking for a man and a woman to write something together.

And we met.

And 10 minutes later, he called me and said, it's me.

And we rode together for five years.

And we had a good amount of success selling these pilots.

And we shot three of them.