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

[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.

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!

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

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.

Kita selalu jumpa orang baik-baik sewaktu mengembara, bukan sebab nasib kita baik. Tapi sebab Tuhan kasihan.

The reason why you don´t have success is, because you don´t understand the difference between wasting and spending time.

the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons

If what you call happiness are the pleasurable feelings that you experience when things are going very well in your life, then you truly don't know what true happiness is.

A famous author is a promoter who never quit.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?