“At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.”
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“I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.”
“I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.”
“There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.”
“A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.”
“What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.”
“When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.”
“Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.”
“Maybe I'm naively romantic, but I do believe that spice and excitement doesn't stop once a couple gets together.”
“Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.”
“Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.”
“I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.”
“With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.”
“Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.”
“I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.”
“I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I decided just like that. No romantic story.”
“I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker... I can be romantic, but not too sickly.”
“I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.”
“I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.”
“I'm a very romantic and passionate guy.”
“The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.”
“In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.”
“I love romantic comedies.”
“After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.”