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" Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them. "

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" When I'm with the wife, and we're having a romantic night, I occasionally think about a glass of red wine, but I'll order a sparkling water. I'd like the wine, but it wouldn't end with one glass, so I don't even go there. "

" My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant. "

" The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising. "

" Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. "

George William Curtis

" I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though. "

" I think that, occasionally, fame and popularity can garner more attention for individuals or films. But as a person who believes in my craft, I like the romantic notion that skill and hard work is more important than notoriety. "

" Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my part - is they teach their kids to tap dance first. Then after tap dance, you learn piano, and after piano, you get to pick between all the instruments that are out there. "

" I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship. "

Pedro Almodovar

" I am a die-hard romantic at heart and love the idea of love. But, when it comes to love, I kinda believe in the old world charm of romance - where there's mystery and intrigue. "

" The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes - the boys of summer - is perhaps the most potent in all of baseball. "

" Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark. "

Stephen Graham Jones

" Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist. "

" The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there. "

" But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know. "

" When I started, there was something almost romantic about the notion of paparazzi. I mean, it wasn't. They were still chasing you down the road. But that guy had to put film in his camera and work out whether it was worth pressing the button to take the shot, otherwise he's got to stop and change the film. So it was like this age of innocence. "

" People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist. "

" People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened. "

" For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it. "

" I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff. "

" I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff. "

" What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. "

" I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.' "

" Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love. "

" When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy. "

" I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them. "

Matthew McConaughey

" I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been. "

Portia de Rossi

" After my divorce, I took some time off from having a romantic life to begin the tough work of figuring out where I'd gone wrong and what on Earth I could do to understand how to be a whole person in a relationship. "

Emily V. Gordon

" I go to acting class, and in acting class, I'm not the girl that brings in romantic comedies; I'm the girl that wants to do 'Girl Interrupted' all the time. "

" It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them. "