Nancy Meyers honors Diane Keaton after her death

Nancy Meyers, the writer-director behind films including Somethings Gotta Give, paid tribute on Monday to longtime friend and collaborator Diane Keaton, who died Saturday at her home in California. In an Instagram post, Meyers described the Oscar winning actress as fearless and "born to be a movie star," and said she had lost not only a professional partner but a friend of nearly 40 years.

"These past 48 hours have not been easy," Meyers wrote. "As a movie lover, I'm with you all — we have lost a giant." She called Keaton a "brilliant actress" who repeatedly laid herself bare to tell stories and said writing for her "made me better because I felt so secure in her hands." Meyers recalled Keaton's range, noting that she could be profoundly vulnerable and uproariously funny, and described a habit the actress used to find an emotional state before takes: sometimes spinning "in a kind of goofy circle" to shed whatever she needed to let herself be in the moment.

Meyers and Keaton collaborated on four films beginning with Baby Boom in 1987. They worked together on Father of the Bride in 1991 and its 1995 sequel, and reunited for the 2003 romantic comedy Somethings Gotta Give, which...