Focus group was helpful in the way it always is when you make movies, especially with anything funny. You can find the right edit or the right beat. …

- Tamara Jenkins

I did watching my films with an audience at the beginning when we went to Sundance and we screened The Savages there. I watched it, and I was just pr…

- Tamara Jenkins

In terms of my peer group, nobody's parents were dying of old age. There was no dialogue to have among friends. I had that experience, and then 10 ye…

- Tamara Jenkins

Ideally, I'd prefer never having to be in a test-screening environment. Some famous director said "The group is smart, the individuals are stupid," a…

- Tamara Jenkins

I had the experience of having my grandmother in a nursing home at the end of her life, and had dementia set in with my father. He was in a nursing h…

- Tamara Jenkins

I just thought that was so interesting, that people that deal with bodies on a much more corporeal level, like the attendants, had a whole different …

- Tamara Jenkins

Starting writing is stressful and scary and hard, but also, it's just like going to the gym. You're just stiff and weird, and you can't do it as well.

- Tamara Jenkins

I remember in film school, when we made shorts, you'd sit there and screen them with your peers, which has its own flavor, because everybody's so com…

- Tamara Jenkins

After the editing room, I go and take a nap. I'm not in the practice of writing, and I feel like I'm flabby, and I have to start arriving at the desk…

- Tamara Jenkins