As Far As The Men

I Try To Write Parts For Women That Are As Complicated And Interesting As Women Actually Are.

Oh, How I Regret Not Having Worn A Bikini For The Entire Year I Was Twenty-six. If Anyone Young Is Reading This, Go, Right This Minute, Put On A Bikini, And Don't Take It Off Until You're Thirty-four.

If You're Looking For Monogamy, You'd Better Marry A Swan.

Plastic Surgery Is A Way For People To Buy Themselves A Few Years Before They Have To Truly Confront What Ageing Is, Which Of Course Is Not That Your Looks Are Falling Apart, But That You Are Falling Apart And Some-day You Will Have Fallen Apart And Ceased To Exist.

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.