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

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

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.

When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

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 took some time out for life.

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