My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters.
I like fiction. I love all sorts of love stories, I think. I even watched ’17 Again.’
In North Korean culture, love is a shameful thing and nobody talked about it in public. The regime was not interested in human desires and love stories were banned.
I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
‘Comfort Me with Apples’ is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals with a later period in my life, most of the people who appear in it are living.
People just love stories.
I’m a fan of classic romance films as well as screwball comedies. I think love stories are just compelling narratives.
I’m not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.
I don’t think you can write – at least not well – if you don’t love stories, love the written word.
I tried my hand in action films, and now I am back to love stories, as people like to see me as a lover boy! But as an actor, I want to try all genres.
Dramatic fiction – William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
For reasons which I can’t logically explain, in all of the films I’ve done, I’ve ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it.
People love stories about the mafia: ‘The Godfather,’ ‘American Gangster.’
I think we need more love stories.
There are a lot of great love stories. It’s just the best thing. Why wouldn’t you write about it? Why wouldn’t you want to read about it? But it’s hard to write about. It’s weird to have such a powerful and universal feeling and hope that you can write that and make it real for people.
I love stories about misfits and underdogs.
I want to work on something other than love stories.
We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work – when you can really watch people find each other and fall in love, a little bit at a time. I like slow burns. Falling in love is so good; why would you want to rush it?
All through my life what I’ve loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.
I love stories. When I’m writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we’re cavemen, we’re sitting around the fire, and I’m telling you stories. If I bore you, you’re probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
‘The Notebook’ is one of my favorite love stories.
You’ll notice that my books offer great variety. Some are for adults, some for children and some for teens. There are mysteries, historical novels, picture books, love stories and stories of crisis and courage.
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.
I love stories about people that, whatever situation they’re in, you can relate to them in a way.
I think women love to read love stories.
I’m excited to see a new age of rom-coms, and especially teen romantic comedies, because when I was younger, I was watching ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Hunger Games’ and stuff like that. I loved those movies, but they are a little bit heavy. We didn’t really get to have the lighthearted love stories.
In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche – there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.
I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters.
I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting.
Especially in writing love stories, there’s always the assumption that once you’ve said ‘I do,’ once you get to the point where you’re married, well, the hard part is over.
You only need to look at Jane Austen to see how crossed wires can become a defining aspect of romantic life. Then again, if the course of true love ran more smoothly, it would have a terribly detrimental effect on our cache of love stories.
I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.
I love stories about women.
When I was first starting out in the industry in the early ’90s, gay love stories were relegated to limited-release films that were hidden deep in the back of Blockbuster video stores.
There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters.
There are a lot of love stories in ‘Maggie’s Plan,’ but the deepest, truly romantic one is between Maggie and her daughter.
When you’re singing about love stories, which is most of my songs, it’s good to have a lot of information and to have a different point of view.
For someone who doesn’t even like love stories, I’ve played an awful lot of lovers.
I would have loved to work with Cranko. I love stories. Even though I like a lot of style – Forsythe, Maliphant – I have this childish side that likes stories.
Love stories are the most difficult to make.
One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar’s ‘Bommarillu.’
People love stories. They need stories.
I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.
There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters.
People love stories. They need stories.
I have seen so many amazing love stories and engagements and I know how hard it is and how special it is to find that.
I’ve produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.
Films which often preach Hindu-Muslim unity have deliberately steered clear of Hindu-Muslim love stories.
For me personally, I feel that a film that doesn’t end with a happy ending has a far bigger reach. It lingers on far more. Unrequited love stories have much more impact on the audiences. If ‘Romeo and Juliet’ had been happily married and had kids and dogs, I don’t think it would have been a classic.
The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart.
I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it’s really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.
I love stories. I loved stories when I was a kid. My mom read stories to me all the time.
I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there’s no love story. It doesn’t have to be romantic, but there’s a lack of love, and I don’t get that.
I guess all my films are about resolving conflicts – and they’re all love stories. If they weren’t, I couldn’t make them.
I think there is an insatiable appetite for romance and for love stories, which is partly why these books and movies do so well.
The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart.
True love stories never have endings.
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.
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