Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

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!

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

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

In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.

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.

Women are being considered as candidates for vice-president of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing that men will take it. A job with real power is first lady. I'd be willing to run for that. As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.