Diane Keaton

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q102642: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Heaven (1987 documentary) (1987); Hanging Up (2000); China Beach (TV series); Pasadena (TV pilot); The Girl with the Crazy Brother; Twin Peaks (TV series); Unstrung Heroes; Wildflower. Count them as actor (14 films), producer (1 film), craft (1 film) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (9) everyone in directing

Acting (19) everyone in acting

Craft (2) everyone in craft

Producing (1) everyone in producing

What was said about them, by kind

career (5)

  1. career (career turn): Baby Boom → Diane Keaton. Baby Boom was the first time Keaton moved away from Annie Hall and Woody Allen and the Godfather to lead a movie herself.
    “it was the 1st time she moved away from Annie Hall, Woody Allen's 70s, Kate Corleone, and it's like, can she actually lead a movie herself and she did?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:18:52 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. career (career setback): Diane Keaton → The Good Mother. Keaton says Disney wanted nothing to do with her after the failure The Good Mother, and Katzenberg resisted her casting.
    “I'd done a movie called The Good Mother, which was a big failure, like big failure, and that was it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:55:12 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Diane Keaton → Father of the Bride. Keaton is in her 1990s comedy zone here, as in Father of the Bride and First Wives Club.
    “is doing in like father of the bride and um, uh, 1st wives club and whatever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:30:33 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Diane Keaton → Hanging Up. Hanging Up was Keaton's biggest directing project and nearly the end of her directing career.
    “And after that, she directs the pilot episode of Mike White's Pasadena for Fox and never directs ever again.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:36:22 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Diane Keaton → Twin Peaks (TV series). Keaton directed a Twin Peaks episode, which helps explain the strange energy of Hanging Up.
    “this does feel like a Nora and Delia Efron script directed by someone who did an episode of Twin Peaks.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:36:41 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Diane Keaton → Manhattan. Keaton plays the off-putting-but-winning woman as in Manhattan, but here the humanity is missing.
    “Like the thing that a movie like Manhattan is trying to unpack”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:31:42 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Diane Keaton → Hanging Up. Keaton says she leaves actors alone, yet the film's big choices came in the editing room with gauzy crossfades.
    “her biggest decisions are being made in the editing room at this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:38:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Diane Keaton → Nancy Meyers. Keaton is Meyers's stand-in on screen.
    “Diane Keaton is like her perfect representation on screen.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:06:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Diane Keaton → Woody Allen. Keaton had long relationships with Allen, Beatty and Pacino.
    “she dated Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Al Pacino.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:07:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Diane Keaton → Oprah Winfrey. Georgia's magazine is described as Oprah launching O magazine after a lifetime of being Oprah.
    “the only analog to what Diane Keaton is in this movie is like Oprah starting O magazine.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:05:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (3)

  1. verdict (career apex): Something's Gotta Give → Diane Keaton. Keaton's mainstream apex is Something's Gotta Give, her full Meyers star vehicle, while her true Apex Mountain is Annie Hall.
    “it's something's got to give, which is her like full Nancy Meyers movie that she stars in.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:02:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (peer Apex Mountain): Steve Martin → Diane Keaton. Both Martin and Keaton had their true peaks 13-14 years before this movie.
    “So what's interesting is they both have their Apex Mountain. Right. Like 13, 14 years before this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:02:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (verdict): Delia Ephron → Diane Keaton. Delia Ephron reportedly said Keaton ruined the best thing she would ever write.
    “She ruined the best thing I'll ever write.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:15:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Diane Keaton: Casting what-if: Keaton says Disney's Jeffrey Katzenberg did not want to work with her after The Good Mother flopped, and Shyer and Meyers had to beg to get her into the film.
    “Charles Shire, Nancy Myers, who'd worked with me before, had to beg to get me into Father of the Bride.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:55:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Diane Keaton: Keaton's directing career before Hanging Up: Belinda Carlisle videos, a documentary, and a CBS special with a very sensitive title.
    “it has the very, very sensitive title of the girl with the crazy brother.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:34:54 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Diane Keaton: Her quoted philosophy: leave actors alone, talk is cheap.
    “I try to sit quietly, I try to leave the actors alone as much as possible.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:37:17 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)