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.

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.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people. What you find gets the high numbers is easily appealing subjects: a baby, a big broad joke, a high concept. Everything is tested. The effect is to lessen the gamble, but in fact you destroy a writer's confidence and creativity once so many people are invited into the tent.

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.