I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.
It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.
A lot of romantic comedies are just light romantic dramas, or the comedy comes off second-best.
I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.
