Quotes about "Love & Romance"

I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn. ”

Sirkian films really aren't - at least the way I see them, they're not about identification. They don't have voiceover. A lot of the love stories that are rooted, classic love stories rooted in point of view, use voiceover as a mechanism for locating you there. ”

Aspects of guilt or handwringing that one might expect in a film set in the '50s about women who discover their love for other women - a lot of these things are not in 'Carol.' ”

The best love stories on film are rooted in the point of view of the more woundable, vulnerable party, the more amorous party. ”

We yearn for the desire to triumph, and it almost never does in the greatest love stories because we're left yearning for it more in the end, and we wish the world were different as a result. I do love that. ”

I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man. ”

Making a movie about the love between two women was really a tribute to the lesbian people in my life, my dear friends who are seminal in my life. ”

With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama. ”

I felt 'Brokeback Mountain' re-imbued the love story with an authentic and unquestionable series of obstacles that these men faced. I think that's certainly true for 'Carol' as well. ”

Love stories require an obstacle between the lovers, something that keeps them from one another. You have to yearn for the love that can't be fulfilled. And it gets harder to conceive of viable cultural or racial or sexual obstacles between people as we move forward progressively. ”