One of the great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. It's a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!

There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all.

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t believe I’m here without her.”- on losing her best friend