I loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I was a very bad student. I just devoured film, but there was a point in my teens when I started to run a little film society.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

My kids paid the price for my career. We can say it's for our family, but it almost never is. It's about us. It's just some of us can pretend better than others.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.

The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,' and I really don't like that. There's enough misery and bad things happening in the world.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.