I'm Very Much A Believer In Knowing

A Lot Of College Graduates Approach Me About Becoming Screenwriters. I Tell Them, 'do Not Become A Screenwriter, Become A Journalist,' Because Journalists Go Into Worlds That Are Not Their Own. Kids Who Go To Hollywood Write Coming-of-age Stories For Their First Scripts, About What Happened To Them When They Were Sixteen. Then They Write The Summer Camp Script. At The Age Of Twenty-three They Haven't Produced Anything, And That's The End Of The Career.

To State The Obvious, Romantic Comedies Have To Be Funny And They Have To Be Romantic. But One Of The Most Important Things, For Me Anyway, Is That They Be About Two Strong People Finding Their Way To Love.

No Man Can Be Friends With A Woman He Finds Attractive. He Always Wants To Have Sex With Her. Sex Is Always Out There. Friendship Is Ultimately Doomed And That Is The End Of The Story.

I’m Really Not Interested In Women As Victims. Look At Me, I Get The Last Laugh ‘cause I Get To Be Funny About It.

Plastic Surgery Is One Of The Ways That People Deal With The Aging Process. And I Don't Mean By Using It As A Form Of Denial, But As A Kind Of Negotiation With It.