Nora Ephron

Also known as Norah Louise Ephron

American film director and writer (1941–2012)

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Nora Ephron was an American film director and writer who lived from 1941 to 2012 and became known for her work in cinema and literature. Her contributions to film and writing made her an influential figure in American culture during her lifetime.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 19 May 1941
Works: 41

Top works

Some Day This Will Be A Funny Story
The Most Of Nora Ephron
Ani śonet et ha-tsaṿar sheli
Cookie
Moja szyja mi sie nie podoba

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: United States
Active from: 1941-05-19
Active to: 2012-06-26

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,087
Total plays: 4,164

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Reporting Structural Equation Modeling and Confirmatory Factor Analysis Results: A Review
· 2006 · cited 5,036x
Neurocircuitry of Addiction
· 2009 · cited 4,423x
Neurobiology of addiction: a neurocircuitry analysis
· 2016 · cited 3,122x
Spatial partitioning of the regulatory landscape of the X-inactivation centre
· 2012 · cited 2,912x
Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe
· 2020 · cited 2,793x

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Quotes

“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.”
“Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.”
“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.”
“[Hollywood] is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it — the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that – so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don’t even wanna be in it!”

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Image: Nora Ephron.jpg
Number of children: 2

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Commons category: Nora Ephron
date of birth: 1941-05-19
date of death: 2012-06-26
start of work period: 1973-00-00
end of work period: 2012-00-00

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Nora Ephron (/ˈɛfrən/ EF-rən; May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American writer, playwright, journalist, and filmmaker. Known for writing and directing romantic comedy films, she received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three Writers Guild of America Awards.

Ephron started her career writing the screenplays for Silkwood (1983), Heartburn (1986), and When Harry Met Sally... (1989), the last of which earned the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, and was ranked by the Writers Guild of America as the 40th greatest screenplay of all-time. She made her directorial film debut with the comedy drama This Is My Life (1992), and was followed by the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Michael (1996), You've Got Mail (1998), Bewitched (2005), and the biographical film Julie & Julia (2009).