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

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've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

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.

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

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!