I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them.
Copy Quote View & ShareI don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
Copy Quote View & ShareI confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
Copy Quote View & ShareFor a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
Copy Quote View & ShareBecause I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
Copy Quote View & ShareI wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.
Copy Quote View & ShareI regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.
Copy Quote View & ShareI think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.
Copy Quote View & ShareI had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.
Copy Quote View & ShareA romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.
Copy Quote View & ShareFor all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.
Copy Quote View & SharePeople expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.
Copy Quote View & ShareI was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.
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