On how his mother's work affected his perception of her I was tremendously worried about what would happen to our relationship if he wasn't in it, and I was very worried about what the movie would look like without him - I didn't think it could be complete. There was a lot of psychological manipulation, and in fact a lot of that stuff that reporters do with subjects whom they have no relationship with where you say, 'It's going to be better for you if you cooperate.' You do what you have to do, particularly if you're making a movie, because I did know how badly we needed him, and I needed him psychologically too. Monkey See What Nora Ephron Taught Me About Love In The Movies I think my mother was fundamentally different than the rest of us were. That's one of the things that doesn't line up neatly. I would not say that during the course of this documentary I found a huge amount of vulnerability. I didn't get an enormous sense of my mother's vulnerability growing up, and I always sort of wondered if that was there. And I wondered whether she had been ambivalent about spilling all of these secrets.

My parents had gotten divorced when I was very young, and it had inspired this book that she had written, and I wanted to know a little bit more about what that was like. I certainly had not written about my family or my own life explicitly, and so I was curious about what that had been like for her. You know, I write for The New York Times, but I write much less personally, generally - or less autobiographically, at least. I think that I was interested in what the life of a writer is. On w hy he wanted to make a documentary about his mother , and wrote and directed Sleepless in Seattle and Julie & Julia.

She also wrote the movies Silkwood and When Harry Met Sally. Ephron wrote a fictionalized account of her and Carl Bernstein's divorce in the best-selling novel Heartburn, which she later adapted into a film. Jacob Bernstein's father, Carl Bernstein, who with Bob Woodward broke the Watergate story, also appears in the film.

The documentary features interviews with family, friends and people Ephron worked with. Bernstein tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that the film's title comes from an Ephron family saying - 'everything is copy,' meaning that anything and everything that happens to you is fair game to write about. The documentary, which debuted on HBO in March, shares the story of Ephron's life. The new documentary Everything Is Copy - about the late writer, director and journalist Nora Ephron - was written and directed by her son, Jacob Bernstein.

Writer, director and journalist Nora Ephron died in 2012 of complications from leukemia.

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