Claire Danes Quotes

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.

I've always loved writing emotionally rich, character-driven novels that explore the way people fall in love and deal with life's triumphs and tragedies. I enjoy writing the contemporary and historical books equally, though perhaps 'enjoy' is the wrong word.

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.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.

I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It's a real emotional ride.

We like drama. Even in our comedy, we like drama.

Audiences know exactly what's coming and they know from the beginning of the movie that everything's going to be OK and there will be high jinks that will get you from the beginning to the end, and eventually all the misunderstandings will be worked out and everyone will be in love.

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

I seem to gravitate toward the dark side of things when it comes to directing. I love action, but I love the drama as well.

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

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.

I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all.

A good fight scene is really a good love scene.

Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.

I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.

I think that internal conflict works very well, because, after all, all the best drama is fuelled by conflict.