Diane Keaton remembered by her final director: Cameramen dissolved into puddles at her feet'

"Diane Keaton had been an icon since before I was even born; who was I to direct her? To fill her head with my dialogue? To give her a note, suggesting: It might be even funnier if you tried ? And yet, as she towered over me in sky-high Gucci platform booties, she never made me feel even one inch less tall as I guided her through what would wind up being her final film."

"Diane didn't merely exist in the world, she shaped it around her, carving a space for herself to be unapologetically Diane. She knew who she was and what she needed to be at her best such as a second hotel room so that on weekends she had a space to design her next art book. She loved to work and rarely took a day off. But perhaps most importantly, she possessed an envious level of confidence without ever crossing that tenuous line into arrogance."

She towered in sky-high Gucci platform booties without making colleagues feel diminished while filming what became her final film. On screen, she presented an unfiltered, naturally incandescent persona and could speak bluntly, described as having a mouth like a sailor. Her laugh transformed rooms and added levity to arduous night shoots. She carved a space to be unapologetically herself, maintained a second hotel room to design art books on weekends, worked with rare days off, and balanced enviable confidence without slipping into arrogance. She resisted trends and refused to change to appeal to men.

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