A lot of things just aren't true any more.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

I took some time out for life.

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.

I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

The real hell of this, " he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.

Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.

I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime.

People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.