Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.

Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.

I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man

Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you