Aline Brosh McKenna

And I said, you know, if I'm ever too brassy or too opinionated, just let me know and I can be adjusted at will.

And he said, you strike me as someone who is adaptable, honest, hardworking, hilarious, intelligent, whatever he said, this long list of wonderful qualities.

And he said, whatever you got, keep it turned up to 11.

And many people had said to me, you should direct.

But I, when I moved to CAA, they sort of said to me, what do you want?

Like, is there anything about being at CAA that would interest you?

And I said, I want to meet Nora Ephron.

I never met her.

And I said, can I meet Nora Ephron?

And so my agent called her and said, this writer is going to be in New York.

Will you sit down with her?

And I went to meet Nora Ephron and she had picked up a bunch of gluten free pastries for us to taste.

And over the course of our conversation, she was slicing them up and tasting them and saying, well, that's terrible.

And that's also terrible.

I said to her, you know, I want to direct, but I don't know as a woman and my opinions and this, and I don't know that much about film technology and cameras and lenses.

And she looked at me and she said, sounds to me like you just want a bunch of excuses not to direct.

If you don't think you can direct, don't.

But if you want to just go and do it.

And I thought,

Yeah, okay.