“I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.”
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“I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.”
“I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.”
“That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.”
“French is the language that turns dirt into romance.”
“The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.”
“I'm very romantic.”
“Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.”
“I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.”
“I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.”
“Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.”
“I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.”
“I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.”
“The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.”
“I happen to be really a romantic.”
“In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.”
“Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.”