People Have Only One Way

Working As A Journalist Is Exactly Like Being A Wallflower At An Orgy.

[on The Screenplay For "when Harry Met Sally"] It Struck Me That The Movies Had Spent More Than Half A Century Saying, "they Lived Happily Ever After" And The Following Quarter Century Warning That They'll Be Lucky To Make It Through The Weekend. Possibly Now We Are Now Entering A Third Era In Which The Movies Will Be Sounding A Note Of Cautious Optimism: You Know, It Just Might Work.

I Think You Often Have That Sense When You Write--that If You Can Spot Something In Yourself And Set It Down On Paper, You're Free Of It. And You're Not, Of Course; You've Just Managed To Set It Down On Paper, That's All.

Hollywood Is A Very Male Business, And It Has In Vast Portions Of It - The Whole Action Movie Part Of It Might As Well Be The United States Army In 1943 In That The Ethics Of It Are, You Know, Boot Camp And Action Movies And Guns And Explosions And All The Rest Of It, And That - So That Means That About 50% Of The Business Is Not Only Pretty Much Closed Off To Women, But Women Don't Even Wanna Be In It!

I Want To Talk To Her. I Want To Have Lunch With Her. I Want Her To Give Me A Book She Just Read And Loved. She Is My Phantom Limb, And I Just Can’t Believe I’m Here Without Her.”- On Losing Her Best Friend