I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
It’s always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.
Beware of men who cry. It’s true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.
Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.
So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn’t it be the other way around?
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.
And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
I definitely divide my life into decades. Almost every ten years, something in my work life has changed. My twenties were my journalistic phase, then there was my screenwriting phase, then I became a director, then I started doing some plays...
And don’t be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I’ve had four careers and three husbands.
When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.
My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn’t get made that have sad endings. It’s very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending.
In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.
When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh.
Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.
The hardest thing about writing is writing.