As Far As The Men Who Are

When You're Attracted To Someone, It Just Means That Your Subconscious Is Attracted To Their Subconscious, Subconsciously. So What We Think Of As Fate Is Just Two Neuroses Knowing That They Are A Perfect Match. - Sleepless In Seattle

In The Way That Women Forget The Pain Of Childbirth, Men Forget That They Cry In Movies.

Everybody Dies. There's Nothing You Can Do About It. Whether You Eat Six Almonds A Day. Whether Or Not You Believe In God.

A Lot Of College Graduates Approach Me About Becoming Screenwriters. I Tell Them, 'do Not Become A Screenwriter, Become A Journalist,' Because Journalists Go Into Worlds That Are Not Their Own. Kids Who Go To Hollywood Write Coming-of-age Stories For Their First Scripts, About What Happened To Them When They Were Sixteen. Then They Write The Summer Camp Script. At The Age Of Twenty-three They Haven't Produced Anything, And That's The End Of The Career.

Most Directors, I Discovered, Need To Be Convinced That The Screenplay They're Going To Direct Has Something To Do With Them. And This Is A Tricky Thing If You Write Screenplays Where Women Have Parts That Are Equal To Or Greater Than The Male Part. And I Thought, 'why Am I Out There Looking For Directors?'—because You Look At A List Of Directors, It's All Boys. It Certainly Was When I Started As A Screenwriter. So I Thought, 'i'm Just Gonna Become A Director And That'll Make It Easier.'