I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother.

Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.