Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

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!

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.

I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the fact that no matter what, I live here and always will. One of my favorite things about New York is that you can pick up the phone and order anything and someone will deliver it to you. Once I lived for a year in another city, and almost every waking hour of my life was spent going to stores, buying things, loading them into the car, bringing them home, unloading them, and carrying them into the house. How anyone gets anything done in these places is a mystery to me.

My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said to us, "Everything is copy."