Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.

7 million. 6 million in its opening weekend in the U. Written for and starring Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte the film was not well received by critics but grossed over $30 million in box-office receipts in the United States.

Her second film as director What Women Want (2000) was at one point the most successful film ever directed by a woman taking in $183 million in the United States. She is the writer producer and director of several big-screen successes including The Parent Trap (1998) Something's Gotta Give (2003) The Holiday (2006) and It's Complicated (2009). Nancy Jane Meyers (born December 8 1949) is an American film director producer and screenwriter.