My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of the most important things, for me anyway, is that they be about two strong people finding their way to love.

I recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism; the fact is, however, that people die. Death happens to be one of life's main events. And it is irresponsible and more than that, inaccurate, for newspapers to fail to show it.

No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.

Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.

Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.