The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred I mean a thousand scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. So I just keep my private life to myself.

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further.

We have got too many kids around the house to have a romantic meal at home. But Danielle is a fantastic cook. She does a brilliant lasagne great roasts and a great chilli dish. She knows the way to my heart.

Ooh it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person you're playing a version of the truth.

I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy.

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy you have to worry about people really liking you.

In the movies Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

Yeah romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

I don't feel like a romantic lead I guess I feel more like a character actor.

I am a hopeless romantic.

I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene it's all about the breath mints!

In terms of romantic films all-time romantic films I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.

Well there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long that's longer than most marriages.

No actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there obviously because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard ugly truths about life that are important to know.

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um after kids no. Take the kids away I don't know. Depends.

I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.

I'm a romantic and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things just romantic things.