I spent two years telling studio heads that it wasn't a cancer picture. I hate cancer pictures. I don't want to see a cancer picture. There is only one thing worth saying about cancer, and that is that there are human beings in cancer wards.

I spent two years telling studio heads that it wasn't a cancer picture. I hate cancer pictures. I don't want to see a cancer picture. There is only one thing worth saying about cancer, and that is that there are human beings in cancer wards.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.