That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.

Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

You can't meet someone until you become what you're becoming.