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I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.

I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.

It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.

I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.

It's always a little nerve-wracking to do a love scene, more than anything because it's just awkward.

In many joyfully-admired recent novels, love appears as little more than sex-manual instruction.

I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face.

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.