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

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

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

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

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 spent a lot of time on Diane Arbus film, not only writing it, but running around talking through various production issues. All this crud, and then…

- Tamara Jenkins

Writing is so... I don't know, it's such a practice, and I feel very unpracticed in it, because I'm not doing it every day. And I really need to do i…

- Tamara Jenkins