Having been married so many times, I know that one of the few things I am an expert in is falling in love.
I don’t care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you’re also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
One of the great things about movies is that it’s just that short period of time. It’s a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
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.