“It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.”
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“There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.”
“Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.”
“Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.”
“I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.”
“I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.”
“I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.”
“It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.”
“People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.”
“The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.”
“I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.”
“The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.”
“I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.”
“A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.”
“In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.”
“Consider what a romantic expedition you are on take notes.”
“So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place.”
“The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.”
“I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and I'd love to do some period pieces with classical text. I'd love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place.”
“There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.”
“I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.”