No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that.

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

In a romance novel, the core story is the developing relationship between a man and a woman. The other events in the story line, though important, are secondary to that relationship.

A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an escape from daily life that included adventure and love and battle. But in the 20th century, that term changed, and now it's deemed only a love story, specifically a courtship story.