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Relationship movies are often made for a female audience.

Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

A film is like a mad arranged marriage, with all these people who don't necessarily want to be with each other forced into this intimate, exhausting process.

One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

We all do films believing in them completely, but sometimes, the audiences like what we like, and other times, they don't.

Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.

I love movies, but I think people think relationships are supposed to go how they go in movies. The ones I like are the ones that represent life.

Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.