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Every movie is a love story.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay with us and resonate are full of conflict, discord and misunderstandings 'cause that's what makes drama happen or tension even if it's a comedy.

Many of our ideas of what love is comes from stories... these are extremely powerful shapers of our attitudes towards love, and I think that, in some ways, often we've got the wrong story.

Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.