Romance Quotes

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

I don't write romance novels.

What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.